#421 The best time to start

Habit-building isn’t about striving for “the perfect day.”

It’s about making sure that even on the imperfect day when nothing goes your way, you still do enough things that fulfill you.

It’s about making the hard things easier.

And it’s about stacking the deck in your favor and making it inevitable to do things that align with who you want to be.

The more frequent and the less intrusive the habit, the easier it is to stick to.

Commit to writing for an hour once week? You’ll find a million reasons to procrastinate until the very last moment, on Sunday night, to write.

Commit to writing for 5 minutes once a day? The timeline is so short, there are no more excuses.

Make it doable. Make it frequent. And suddenly every habit is within reach.

5 dead-simple steps to start writing – even if you’ve tried everything:

1. Set aside dedicated time tomorrow morning. From now on, this is your dedicated time every day.
2. Start with a Tiny Trust Builder; something that makes it easy for you to show up consistently. Write for one minute. Write one sentence. Write one word. If it feels hard to do every day, think smaller.
3. First build the habit, then build skill. Right now, you’re building a daily writing habit, not a “daily masterpiece” habit. That comes later.
4. If step 3 feels hard: write something bad on purpose.
5. If step 4 feels hard and you don’t feel motivated to write: write anyway. You don’t need motivation to write. You’re a writer. So you write.

Good luck!