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Maurice Klimek's avatar

As James Clear taught me in his book: if you want a habit to stick, make it easy.

Want to be a writer? Write one sentence a day.

You might get to many sentences, but one sentence is the minimum.

Keeps me writing for months now.

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Kenny Alami's avatar

That’s awesome! I’m glad it’s working so well for you!

I’ve been setting my mind on doing this too but I still write my issues 24-48 hours before publishing, haha. I need to change that because I’d like to put more thought into my writing!

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Akos Komuves's avatar

Great story, Kenny, and love this line:

"A line every day is better than no drawing."

I found this approach super effective. It's what made me finish my course after years of trying. Then immediately after, I wrote and published my first book and am already working on the second one. Step by step. 💪

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Kenny Alami's avatar

One step at a time. It reduces anxiety and helps keep you humble.

And, man, I see how you’ve been killing it recently. Launching all those courses and the book, plus the 9-5 and the kid. Hats off to you!

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Akos Komuves's avatar

Thanks! Kid helps me get things done because I don't have time to mess around 😂 I know you're a fresh parent, too, how are you dealing with it? 🙂

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Kenny Alami's avatar

Haha, I feel the same. I've been procrastinating on some stuff but the cost of doing that is way higher nowadays 😅 Overall, it's been fine. We're in as much of a routine as possible with the family now :)

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Caleb Hinton's avatar

Nice one. I was told that all 'to do' list entries should begin with a verb, as you said 'finish' website. But what I do is I split it up into tiny things, so like 'write website headline' underneath as another tickbox. So then I'm ticking off the tiniest things but they feel like wins. But you're so right when you say life comes up, sometimes it all goes to shit lol.

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Kenny Alami's avatar

It’s weird but our tendency when planning is to think everything will go according to plan so we usually don’t leave a buffer. And obviously it’s a balance to leave the right amount of buffer based on the complexity of the project!

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