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Applying These 5 Principles Transformed My Life
Have you ever felt stuck, as if you are watching your life pass by without truly living it? I have been there.
For years, I was trapped in a cycle of mediocrity, always dreaming of a better future but never quite reaching it.
I have aspired to write practitioner articles for the last 15 years, but I have always procrastinated this. “One day, I will start writing a book,” I said, and that day never came. I felt like an utter failure and gave up hope.
I then decided to develop small positive habits and do them consistently every day. I doodled every day for one year, and this journey enabled me to create an inspirational book based on doodle exercises to increase self-awareness and creativity.
If I had started with an ambitious goal of writing a book, I would have never achieved finishing this book. However, I tricked myself into creating consistently and moving with very small steps.
The next big step for me was to create a habit of regular writing on the Internet. The pandemic lockdown has enabled me to make a radical decision: I would write regularly on Medium during the lockdown period. I would try to write and publish a minimum of 1 article every 2 days — however small, messy, crap, and insignificant that article might be. During the last 4.5 years, I have…