I bought myself a New Year’s present that arrived on Christmas Eve, a box of 365 cards each with a journaling prompt. Sometimes it is difficult to come up with things to write about, but writers write even if all they have to write is “the cat sat on the mat.” So… I’m going to write. Every day.
Welcome to my mental compost.
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Describe what your life will be like in 3 years if you continue to allow your bad habits to stand in your way.
In order to describe a life controlled by your bad habits means having to identify your bad habits. I don’t really want to do that. I have a lot of them. We all do. Any habit can become a bad habit if it starts getting in the way of your plans and dreams.
Three years from today will be January 1, 2024. I’ll be almost 35. Halfway through another decade, almost halfway through my life. I’ll probably be planning my midlife crisis by then, my quarterlife crisis was pretty fun. Ideally, I would like to be preparing for a trip to Africa to climb Mount Kilimanjaro by then, I would like to start publishing my novel series that year, and I would like to be done with my student loan debt. That’s the ideal, even if it isn’t exactly what my best life will look like then.
There are a couple of habits that I will definitely have to address in order to do those things.
The bad habits that keep me away from the life that I most want are not necessarily bad habits; they just don’t reflect the priorities that will get me where I want to be.
Have I ever mentioned how difficult writing can be? I like to hang out and daydream about my novels or talk to my best friend about the plot points I have worked out. I do not always like to sit down and actually write those scenes or edit the scenes I have already written. Suddenly it starts to feel like work. It’s a bad habit. I like to distract myself from my actual work by daydreaming about the work.
You want to know what’s going to happen if I continue to live within those habits? I’m going to remain unpublished stuck in the same place as I watch my friends and family move forward with their lives. That’s what happens when anyone lets any habit come between them and a priority.
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