Five Minutes of Writing

It’s quite difficult to keep up with the habit of writing. Since the objective is to cultivate the love of writing and reflecting, let’s aim for the consistency instead of the duration.

So, let’s aim a more realistic goal, to write 5 minutes a day. There is no need to cover all the activities or learning points or insights. But to write down whatever comes up to our mind first.

Let’s write a bit more since last Thursday I was too sleepy to write. The challenge from last week was that after the success I got, I set up even higher standards by deep dive into one areas while there are other things still waiting to be done.

So there are two behaviors that I can change, procrastinate and spend too much time. When procrastinating, I just need to remember to select one and stick on doing it for at least 25 minutes or other given time. The focus is that action comes before motivation. On the other hand, when I already deep dive on something, I need to ask myself whether it is realistic to deep dive further. If not, it may be better to focus on accomplishing something that is good enough. Remember I need to practice to be imperfect and see that we can still live with it and it is perfectly fine for being imperfect.

Apart from the behavior, I also need to identify the unhelpful thinking styles. When I am afraid to reject something or delegate to others, ask what is my emotion. Is it worried? Then, ask what kind of thoughts I have. What kind of shoulds and musts that I have? Remember that it is not true that I must be a good person to everyone. I can wish to be good and nice to everyone, but if I can’t, it is totally fine and there is nothing wrong with being imperfect human who can’t help everyone.