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Always “going to write” your book?
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Reading time: 1.12 Hey Reader, Always “going to write” your book? Not actually written it? (Yep I woke up and chose violence today and I AM NOT SORRY) The cognitive dissonance that comes from repeatedly vowing to do something but not doing it is painful. It makes a liar of us. For a lot of people (and myself on occasion) this is what a week looks like: 😀 Monday: Will work on my book today, but first I need to do more research between my other work. I’ll start writing tomorrow. 🙃 Tuesday: I’ll DEFINITELY start my book today. After I’ve just done this urgent thing. Oh, then I have meetings. It’s okay, I’ll start tomorrow. It’s only Tuesday. 😬 Wednesday: OH CRAP I didn’t do that client thing — I have to do that before I start my book. I’ll start later. (Narrator: she did not start later.) 🙄 Thursday: I was going to do a solid two hours writing today, but I had to rearrange meetings and now I only have 30 minutes and it’s 5pm so there’s no point starting. Tomorrow I’ll spend the WHOLE day. 😳 Friday: OKAY TODAY IS THE DAY. *gets out notes* These notes make no sense! What was I going to write about? This book idea needs more thinking about and I will do that over the weekend. 😑 Monday again: WELL FUCK. 💀 Repeat until dead. So how the hell do you even start, pickle? How do you break the loop?
TTFN, Vicky
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