Our Inner Dickheads hate change. They love the status quo (not the band).
There's no point trying to silence that voice, either; it won't go away. It's a part of you.
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Want to know how I've gone from a chaotic cranefly who couldn't get out of bed to a 6 am person who writes every day and sometimes eats like a healthy adult?
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We're basically a bundle of habits, good and bad.
Which means every single action we take is a vote for the person we want to be.
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For the past three days, I have sat at my laptop first thing in the morning and cried tears of frustration.
Every word I've written has been dragged out of my brain with forceps and no pain relief – and arranging those words on the page has been torture.
Almost everything I've written has been total crap by my usual standards.
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If we’re not drinking the Koolaid, if we’re not hustling 24/7 and obsessing over growth, we’re somehow less than those other entrepreneurs and business owners we see crushing it every day. I call bullshit. Not all growth is healthy.
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Post-festive-sludging and I feel like my head is stuffed with roast potatoes.
I am struggling to form a coherent thought, let alone write about one.
This is extraordinarily vexing to someone who writes for a living.
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Within the haze of end-of-year parties and amidst the overindulgence of the festive feasting period glows an ember.
The glimmer of an idea.
The hope that perhaps this year will be different.
Maybe this will be the year we'll write our books or run that marathon or start that business or go after that big contract.
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Just because I got elbowed in the face once in Primark doesn’t mean everyone who shops in Primark is an arse. Just because I got elbowed in the face once in Primark doesn’t mean everyone who shops in Primark is an arse. Repeat until I believe it.
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Whether your project is a giant railway infrastructure, a cottage renovation, or writing your book, it will inevitably take way too long and cost much more than you budget. It’s because you suffer from the planning fallacy — with a healthy dose of optimism bias and overconfidence thrown in.
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If you want to write your book, you need to build a good writing habit or you'll never manage it.
What are you struggling with? What feels horrible?
What if, instead of saying you'll write 500 words a morning, all you have to do is make a cup of tea, open your document, and scribble down what you're going to do next?
Make it easy and make it attractive.
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It's up to us to persuade the right people that our books are worth investing in.
Nobody else is going to do it for us – and that's a really cool position to be in because it means we're in charge of our own destiny. We get to make our own successes (and failures) without relying on (or blaming) others.
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We think that unless we can make giant leaps forward and see enormous and sudden improvements in what we're doing, we're not doing anything.
It's hard to keep going when keeping going is hard (and boring).
