13 Games I Play to Continuously Crush My Writing Goals With Ease
Writing is hard, playing isn’t
Ugh. It happened again.
Just before you slept yesterday, you were excited to wake up, brew your favorite coffee, and start writing a new article today.
But today, you feel like sleeping. Writing doesn’t seem exciting anymore. It seems tedious.
Not able to finish your writing goal today, worse, not even at least opening the doc to start writing, is sucking the energy out of you. You feel like you are procrastinating. You feel like you are missing something. You feel like you are a loser who doesn’t get things done.
It just feels bad. You want to write, but you can’t.
You are tense. You’re frustrated. You’re losing hope.
But wait! This is actually a good thing — it’s a necessity for success. We can’t avoid it, nor skip it, and can’t even suppress it. It happens whenever it has to happen. I call this “The Writer’s Mind-Building Period.”
This actually comes with a lot of benefits. A few are:
- You start to think more clearly when that period ends. Because you’re fresh, you’re fully energetic, and you’ve got a newer, better perspective now.
- You get more motivated…
