The 8-Minute Writing Habit: Create a Consistent Writing Habit That Works With Your Busy Lifestyle (Growth Hacking For Storytellers) by Monica Leonelle

Author:Monica Leonelle [Leonelle, Monica]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Writing Productivity
Publisher: Spaulding House
Published: 2015-09-08T07:00:00+00:00

#2 - The 8-minute writing habit can be tacked onto or hooked into your current morning, afternoon, or evening routine

The beauty of writing only 8 minutes a day is that it's so easy to incorporate into a routine that you already have.

Most people already have morning routines that include things like showering, getting dressed, brushing your teeth, drinking coffee, reading the newspaper, and more. Most people also already have lunch routines that consist of waiting in line to buy food, sitting with coworkers and chatting, or eating at a desk while checking email or watching Netflix. And finally, a lot of people have evening routines including things like cooking a homemade dinner, working out, putting the kids to sleep at a certain time, and reading in bed.

A full Pomodoro would be very difficult to work into any of these currently established routines. It's not easy, for example, to wake up 30 minutes early.

But an 8-minute writing session is different. It feels more manageable, because it is—and using this concept is going to allow you to work your writing into any of the previously established routines you already have. This is going to help you develop a consistent writing habit without having to change your entire life around.

If you want to build your 8-minute writing habit into your current routine, BJ Fogg, a Stanford professor and expert at building habits, suggests starting with something as simple as possible. He uses the trigger, action, reward framework, which is easy to implement with the 8-minute writing habit. In this case, you would pick a trigger that's already in one of your routines, and then you would do your 8-minute writing habit right afterward. For example, if you eat a salad at lunch every day, you would do your 8-minute writing habit right after you rinse your fork in the lunch room.

I highly recommend BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits program. You can learn more about it at http://bjfogg.com.

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