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The Writing Advice That Changed My Life
When constant inspiration cripples you a system could be the answer
It was 2020 and I was slowly getting bored with the conversations I was having with myself.
My problem? I liked too many things. It doesn’t sound like a problem, I know, boohoo me but it was. My constant inspiration was crippling my productivity.
It was at this point I began to read, I thought, surely someone else had this focus problem.
Surely someone else was zipping between 17 different passions and making barely any progress on all of them.
The advice
It was at this point I stumbled across two pieces of content that together, changed things for me. The first was James Clear’s Atomic Habits and the second was Dan Brown’s Masterclass. It the first, I read this sentence and highlighted it:
“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”- James Clear
In the second, Dan Brown said:
“Protect your process.”— Dan Brown
I realised I had no process, no system, no anything. And I certainly wasn’t protecting it. I was just waking up, aimlessly allowing my brain to gravitate to whatever was the most…
