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How Writing Consistently Could Change Your Life
When I say writing has changed my life, most people think I’m exaggerating or being too romantic. But I’m not.
Over the last five years, I’ve practiced various forms of writing:
- I self-published a book
- Wrote over 550 articles on Medium
- I’ve been journaling daily
- And have sent 672 newsletters to my email subscribers
And I can confidently tell writing can change your life in ways you might’ve never expected. Here are some of them:
Writing = Communicating with yourself.
When I encourage aspiring writers to finally start publishing their work, they often feel intimidated because they believe they “don’t have anything interesting to say.”
When I tell them they can just write in a personal journal, they say, “my life is boring. I don’t even experience enough stuff to write it down.”
But writing isn’t about “having something to say.”
It’s about finding out what you want to say.
By writing, you gain clarity about your thinking, which allows you to dive deeper and find more topics to talk and write about.
Writing helps you create space to connect with your mind and thoughts. The more you write, the more you think.
If you choose to write in a private journal, all you need to ask yourself is what you think and feel.
Tim Ferriss says writing is like freezing your thinking on paper.
If you write for an audience, you can ask yourself which messages you’d like to share with the world.
What does the world need more of?
What’s a message you wish you had discovered earlier?
How could you possibly help people through your words?
You don’t learn by reading, but you do by writing.
Writing helps you make sense of what you read and listen to.
In the 21st century, we’re all being bombarded with information, news, and new insights all the time.
