30 Days Writing Challenge: Hacking Discipline
I’m a feeler, an empath if you will. As a passionate person that I am, my emotions have a certain depth to them that makes me uncomfortable, sometimes embarassed even. But as with everything else, there’s pros and cons to this.
One of the pro is that if I love you, you’ll know it and will never doubt. If I don’t, it’s also evident. My intuition is mostly always on the mark hence I trust my gut feeling very often. As a creative, a writer, I am able to articulate and put to paper my thoughts and feelings in a way that whoever is reading can connect to. I write for all of those whose feelings have depth but aren’t gifted with the gift of literary expression.
Amongst, the multiple cons is that I am very much moved by how i feel. A lot of the time, if I don’t feel like doing something, then I don’t. I have found however that I am able to be disciplined in areas that have consequences. For example, if I were jobless, I would dilligently search for a job because the consequence of not doing so is penury. I consciously have to make an attempt to discipline myself and even when I do, I find that if I lose my consistency streak, I am back to being a slave to my feelings and emotions. Obviously this is unsustainable and it’s spilling even into the things that I enjoy.
Hence this 30 days writing challenge. For the next 30 days, I am going to write and publish one article per day, diligently. I am also extending this into my personal life where no matter how I feel, I will try to adhere to a disciplined lifestyle. Because the side effects of indiscipline is that I am teaching my sub sconscious how not to do things diligently any longer. I am telling her that no matter what the task is that my conscious mind requires, if I am not ‘’feeling’’ like it, then we can’t do it. That’s bad vibes and quite frankly not the vibe I want for my life; so challenging myself to do this is me taking a step to completely revolutionizing my life. I am getting in the driver seat again and bringing balance back to impending chaos. I’m not exaggerating, I promise, things are that dire already.
This isn’t day 1 but this is my ‘‘why’’ and I hope to come back to this anytime my thighs feel heavy from running for too long on this race to re-building my discipline muscle.
Tomorrow is day 1 and I’ll be starting this writing marathon with a topic I love talking about! Wish me luck✨.
