DO what you want to be! (008)

If you’ve stopped writing because you think you’ll never be good at it, or you think you are unable to change your (non)writing habits, this episode is for you! If you’ve stopped writing because you think you’ll never be good at it, or you think you are unable to change your (non)writing habits, this episode is for you! We often lock ourselves into patterns and habits that do not serve us. This episode is about recognizing how we do that, and what we can do to change it, but even more importantly: WHY.  

In regards specifically to writing, I talk about how my own need to “practice” escapism sometimes overwhelmed my life, and months would go by without writing a damn thing. When dealing with mental health issues, it is not uncommon to be riding the bus that is your life instead of driving. I had to learn was that it was okay to be someone who needed escapism. 

What I had to do first was simply ask myself this: why?

When I ask you to step back and look at habits you have that you feel are not productive, or are frivolous, I’m not asking you to jump immediately into criticising yourself for doing those things. Asking “why?” is about looking holistically at your life and figuring out what is going on. 

Writing with depression is hard. Writing while being a caretaker is hard. Writing while sick, or holding down a regular job, or two jobs, or dealing with financial hardships is hard. 

But in the end, doing the thing at all is a triumph. Every sentence you write brings you closer to excellence, even if you can only write a sentence a day. No one starts out where they want to be, after all. This podcast is about examining what we think “excellence” is with a classic quote generally attributed to Aristotle (but probably wasn’t anything he ever said!) and then breaking it down with “why” and “how.”