I Deleted All the Games from My Phone, Now I Write and Submit Two Articles a Day

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tead of writing one article a day this past weekend, I wrote two.</p><p id="f66f">It helped that my wife left me alone to write, but I know that not having the distraction of my phone was the catalyst. The surge in productivity got my attention.</p><h2 id="31f9">Do you want to succeed as a writer or not?</h2><p id="ce05">If you want to succeed in writing, or anything else, you need to assess your priorities. Take a hard look at what you are doing with your time.</p><p id="2542">In the next step in my new dedication to writing, I deleted a whole bunch of Instagram accounts. I deleted almost all the accounts that had nothing to do with writing.</p><h2 id="43fc">We all have to grow up sometime</h2><p id="74cf">I decided that a sixty-two-year-old man didn’t need to look at accounts that a teenage boy would obsess over. These two steps have improved my focus. They wer

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e distractions even when I wasn’t using the phone.</p><p id="9e84">The third thing I did, I put both phones out of reach. I have to fight the compulsion to pick the damned things up and scroll through sites that don’t matter.</p><h2 id="0103">I want to earn my money</h2><p id="f7b1">The two article a day goal is a means to an end. I haven’t had a car for a while. I’m on Disability and my wife soon will be on it as well. I want to make enough that I can get off Disability.</p><h2 id="def4">I don’t want to sound like Captain Obvious, but</h2><p id="ac05">My advice for everyone struggling to produce content is. You have to put the work first; get rid of everything that gets in the way. Playing Words with friends will not make you a successful writer, but writing a lot will.</p><h2 id="d7db">Do the work</h2><p id="efc2">[email protected]</p></article></body>

I Deleted All the Games from My Phone, Now I Write and Submit Two Articles a Day

It’s not rocket science

I was playing with my phone, Words with Friends, then I would switch to Instagram. I would check my Twitter feed as well. I did all this while sitting in front of my laptop with the intention of writing.

A few days ago an impulse seized me

It was the urge to delete all the games from my phone. A few days later, I noticed something. My focus had increased. Instead of writing one article a day this past weekend, I wrote two.

It helped that my wife left me alone to write, but I know that not having the distraction of my phone was the catalyst. The surge in productivity got my attention.

Do you want to succeed as a writer or not?

If you want to succeed in writing, or anything else, you need to assess your priorities. Take a hard look at what you are doing with your time.

In the next step in my new dedication to writing, I deleted a whole bunch of Instagram accounts. I deleted almost all the accounts that had nothing to do with writing.

We all have to grow up sometime

I decided that a sixty-two-year-old man didn’t need to look at accounts that a teenage boy would obsess over. These two steps have improved my focus. They were distractions even when I wasn’t using the phone.

The third thing I did, I put both phones out of reach. I have to fight the compulsion to pick the damned things up and scroll through sites that don’t matter.