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How to Keep Writing Day After Day Without Quitting (Even When You Don’t Feel Like It)
I get it…
Some days you just don’t feel like writing. The inspiration isn’t there and you feel like you don’t have anything important to say.
Your writing career is on the back burner because you have so many other things to do with — your job, your kids, your life, everything.
You keep telling yourself you’re going to “get around to it” but you blink and days, weeks, even months have gone by without typing a single word.
How do you get back on the horse?
How do you push through when the motivation isn’t there?
I’ve learned some tips, tricks, and mindsets along the way. I’m using them right now because I don’t feel like writing this post. Good thing I had these tips handy.
The Diamond in the Rough
I was listening to a podcast the other day featuring author and former Navy Seal Jocko Willink. His book, Extreme Ownership, details his experience in the Iraq war and translates the leadership principles he learned during life or death situations into principles we all can use in various areas of our lives from business to creativity. As a leader of his troop, he was responsible for the lives of other people. If…
