Improve your life with daily writing

Opportunities, personal branding, audience building. This might be your reason to start a daily writing habit but the benefits are much greater than externally driven metrics. Writing makes you a better person who is more in tune with who you are and what you want. If you start writing consistently today this is what you will find…

1. Improve your clarity of thought with daily writing

Writing down your thoughts is a sure fire way to gain clarity on everything in your head. As you write you will connect ideas together that otherwise would sit poles apart in your brain.

Clarity of thought is important in a world full of information flying at us. Being able to clearly articulate your perspective, in a way that people want to receive information is a high leverage skill that should not be overlooked.

2. The power of compounding

The more you write, the better you become. Writing is something we all have to do — emails, reports, thought leadership. Why not turn it into something that is easy for you?

As with anything, the more you do it, the better you become. Writing in public gives you access to the world. You can write and distribute your work to the world at little to no cost. With consistency of daily writing, opportunities will come to you, rather than you having to seek them out yourself.

3. Daily writing for stress management

By writing down your thoughts, you are releasing some of the information in your brain. We often feel stressed because there is a lot of moving parts and it is hard to slow down, get a grip on them and process. Writing will help give structure to these thoughts which might lead to a clear understanding of what needs to be done.

If you can showcase your challenges or struggles and how you overcome them your writing will take off. You will help others in your situation as well as having an outlet to deal with your stress at the time. The journey you are on will add value to the world — nobody else will see it from your individual perspective.

4. Getting to ‘good enough’

Perfect does not exit yet most people strive for it. Writing will get you to see this in action. There is always another word you could use, or another sentence you could write, but what you write the first time round with some refinement is probably good enough.

When we take this mindset into everything we do we can drop perfectionism and understand that we are striving for ‘good enough’. As a result, our output increases as we reduce the time trying to get to perfect.

5. Build your ideas bank

We get hundreds of ideas a day. Some are better than others. Most people rarely capture those ideas, but writing them down will allow you to capture them. Several of the ideas you capture might just be something — if we never write it down, we never know how the world might react to that idea.

Writing provides a stream of endless opportunities. You can turn it into your superpower by practicing it every day.