Failure to form this habit will result in the tape-and-body-hair punishment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nChanging a habit is always the hard part, after all, and it’s why people fail at things like ‘keeping the house clean’ or ‘saving money’ or ‘maintaining a healthy weight.’<\/p>\n
Usually, this failure stems from one simple thing: none of those goals involve changing just one<\/strong><\/em> habit; they require changing a lot of habits and frankly people aren’t very good at changing a lot of habits at the same time. In order to make progress, you need to pick one habit out of the whole mess, and focus on that.<\/p>\nThere are, in fact, steps.<\/p>\n
\n- 1. Commitment. <\/strong>Commit yourself to a habit change, big time. Make your commitment as public as possible.<\/li>\n
- 2. Practice. <\/strong>Changing habits is a skill, and like any skill it takes practice. Most people suggest challenging yourself to a 30-day Challenge and try to do your new habit every single day for 30 days.<\/li>\n
- 3. Tracking.<\/strong> It\u2019s best if you log your progress every day. This will make a successful habit change much more likely.<\/li>\n
- 4. Rewards.<\/strong> Reward yourself. Do so often, early on \u2014 every day for a week or so, then every three days, then the end of every week, and then at the end.<\/li>\n
- 5. Focus. <\/strong>It\u2019s hard to do more than one or two habits at a time \u2014 you can\u2019t maintain focus — so just pick one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Does… any of this sound familiar?<\/p>\n
I want to congratulate you. Not on winning NaNoWriMo – that’ll come – but on something much more valuable: on building a writing habit.<\/p>\n
It’s pretty awesome, isn’t it? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Back on day eight, I mentioned that by getting that far through NaNoWriMo, you’d already gotten past two of the primary “I quit” days in the month: Days 3 and 7. Today, we’re past day 21. If you’ve gotten this far, and you’re still here, I think you’re going to do okay. In fact, I … <\/p>\n
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