When you sign up for a 30-day writing challenge, the ideal outcome is you successfully publish 30 blogs in 30 days.
A lot of writers are so obsessed with this outcome, that they forget why they started. Many writers quit after missing a day, because they think that: “If I miss one, I’m done, challenge over.”
They fail to understand the difference between “outcome” and “purpose”.
The outcome might be the 30 blogs. But the purpose is to build a writing habit or overcome the fear of writing in public.
With that purpose, missing a day might not be a terrible thing.
When you’re building a habit, every small decision you make is a vote on who you are. So the most important question at the end of the 30-day writing challenge is: “Are the days you showed up greater than the days you missed?”
You can miss one. Life gets in the way: your dog dies, you have Covid, a family emergency…
The key is to never miss twice in a row.
Because the moment you miss 2 days, you’ll go back to telling yourself: “Oh, I’ll write tomorrow.”
The problem is, tomorrow will never come.
Giống như kết quả và quá trình là 2 phạm trù khác nhau, người khác thì nhìn vào kết quả nhưng chỉ cần mình biết bản thân đã nổ lực như thế nào là được rồi 🥰