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9">Like any writer, sometimes it’s good to go back and look over your most shared work on the internet, to see how far you’ve come and how far you still have to go.Remembering my invisible habit of crying before writing something — — made me realize that my work which has helped people the most —work which has had the audience leaving comments related to its inspiring effect — has come from the sessions that began with subtle crying.When you cry before creating your art, or doing work that you love, you connect to it on an emotional level.Emotion is what links human beings together and that linkage allows us to be inspired. By crying before writing, in a way, I seem to be able to communicate in a different way.The words you write after you have just cried watching a YouTube video are not the same. The lyrics you sing after you cry from watching someone else’s heartbreak, come from a different part of your heart. The drawing you draw after having your mind reshaped through watching someone else just like you struggle, win, and have their moment makes a different picture appear on the page.Crying makes you show up to do your life’s work in a completely different state of mind. You’re more empathetic to the people who consume your art because crying brings out your vulnerability.I’ve found over the years that the work people appreciate is the work that comes from the heart and is selfless in its creation. Crying makes me weirdly selfless and want to help people. I don’t know why that’s the case.<

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h1 id="987b">When You Cry, What Follows Is Flow</h1>The sessions where I cry before writing produce the most immense flow states where time seems to speed past and the words come out of my fingertips with little fuss.Crying blocks all of the distractions, focuses your attention, and makes you remember why you’re doing the work in the first place.Nothing seems to weigh your mind down and prevent you from being creative when you have just finished a good crying session and decide to inspire people with your work.One of the hardest parts of writing for me is starting the process. Once I begin writing, the rest happens from there — but overcoming the resistance to starting is no easy task.Looking back on the sessions where a good cry was involved, the process of watching a YouTube video and then getting into the writing was seamless. Normally with my writing, there’s a gap between procrastination and starting the work. That gap is always much bigger than I’d like and crying has been a strange way I’ve found to close that gap.Without crying, it can take me one to two hours of messing about on the internet before I start writing.Maybe crying before doing work is the ultimate productivity hack yet to be explored.<h1 id="3c03">Summing Up</h1>I know this is not the most trendy topic to write about, but for me, it’s the truth. Crying before doing your life’s work or attempting to be creative is the best way I know to connect to an audience and inspire them.</article></body>

I Cry Before Writing My Most Shared Articles

To produce inspiring work, tap into your emotions before sitting down

This is not an easy thing to admit and I never really understood until today that it was even happening.

Certain pieces I write are designed to touch people’s hearts so that afterwards, they can be inspired and perhaps contemplate a slightly different reality to the one they’ve been living.

Today I sat down to write something inspiring and did what I never realized I always do: sit down in my office chair and watch 2–3 videos on Youtube that inspire me and cause the tears to roll down my cheek like a waterfall.

These are videos that I have bookmarked and they make me cry every single time. The reason for the tears varies, but often it comes down to a few reasons:

It reminds me of who I used to be
It brings back memories of being close to death several times
It makes me feel connected to other human beings
It makes me feel joy because of the struggle endured by the person in the Youtube video and their eventual win

Like any writer, sometimes it’s good to go back and look over your most shared work on the internet, to see how far you’ve come and how far you still have to go.

Remembering my invisible habit of crying before writing something — — made me realize that my work which has helped people the most —work which has had the audience leaving comments related to its inspiring effect — has come from the sessions that began with subtle crying.

When you cry before creating your art, or doing work that you love, you connect to it on an emotional level.

Emotion is what links human beings together and that linkage allows us to be inspired. By crying before writing, in a way, I seem to be able to communicate in a different way.

The words you write after you have just cried watching a YouTube video are not the same. The lyrics you sing after you cry from watching someone else’s heartbreak, come from a different part of your heart. The drawing you draw after having your mind reshaped through watching someone else just like you struggle, win, and have their moment makes a different picture appear on the page.

Crying makes you show up to do your life’s work in a completely different state of mind. You’re more empathetic to the people who consume your art because crying brings out your vulnerability.

I’ve found over the years that the work people appreciate is the work that comes from the heart and is selfless in its creation. Crying makes me weirdly selfless and want to help people. I don’t know why that’s the case.

When You Cry, What Follows Is Flow

The sessions where I cry before writing produce the most immense flow states where time seems to speed past and the words come out of my fingertips with little fuss.

Crying blocks all of the distractions, focuses your attention, and makes you remember why you’re doing the work in the first place.

Nothing seems to weigh your mind down and prevent you from being creative when you have just finished a good crying session and decide to inspire people with your work.

One of the hardest parts of writing for me is starting the process. Once I begin writing, the rest happens from there — but overcoming the resistance to starting is no easy task.

Looking back on the sessions where a good cry was involved, the process of watching a YouTube video and then getting into the writing was seamless. Normally with my writing, there’s a gap between procrastination and starting the work. That gap is always much bigger than I’d like and crying has been a strange way I’ve found to close that gap.

Without crying, it can take me one to two hours of messing about on the internet before I start writing.

Maybe crying before doing work is the ultimate productivity hack yet to be explored.

Summing Up

I know this is not the most trendy topic to write about, but for me, it’s the truth. Crying before doing your life’s work or attempting to be creative is the best way I know to connect to an audience and inspire them.