Ngày 6: It’s okay to miss one

What most people get wrong about 30-day writing challenge

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.