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Here’s Why You Need a Connecting Habit
You really only need one good habit to change everything
From January 2018 to December 2020, I wrote daily in the morning. I went from being a hobbyist to a professional writer, writing over 700 stories and 4 books along the way. When things started getting too serious, I completely withdrew from the profession.
For the first six months, I didn’t miss it.
Then, looking back, I realized I was drifting off. I stopped working out in the morning. I felt low on energy. All my good habits went out the window. I realized I had lost the self-awareness I worked so hard to get.
I was wondering why it was that I had sunk so “low”. And near the end of June, I figured it out — I had dropped my single most important habit six months prior: writing daily in the morning.
In January 2021, I decided to drop writing because I was getting too serious about it. I didn’t write for the sake of writing anymore. My family depended on me to do well and it lost all its magic. Writing had become work, and not work that I actually enjoyed.
But by dropping it then, I made a terrible mistake. Writing — I realize now — was the habit that glued everything together for me.
