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nowadays. It puts us in control of the day. I planned in tabular form because I wanted to organise my day better to see if I can find the slots when I am most creative.<h1 id="201a">Embrace The Problem To Find A Solution</h1>Day 1 did not work out so good because of strict over-planning. <a href="https://readmedium.com/reducing-daily-writing-sessions-from-2-hours-to-30-minutes-for-quality-work-a8fbd0f9b95f">I usually take 30 minutes</a> from writing the first draft to editing, publishing and sharing. Today it has extended for two hours.I wanted to overcome this obstacle. I wanted the current learning experience to guide me whenever I face a creativity block in future. That’s why I thought of the simplest way to recover from it.When you think of a problem as temporary, you know it won’t have a damaging effect in the long-term. We just need to find a reliable solution to it which requires minimal effort.<h1 id="0bf0">Morning Walk</h1>No one ever felt bad after taking a walk. I knew it would help me too. And it did. I turned off my computer, went out of the room and walked for some time. Did not record it, but it was somewhere around 10 minutes. I wanted to find a way to recover from this short but vexed situation and see it as a learning opportunity.While relaxing my mind and coming up with a solution to fix this, I remembered why I started in the first place. I realised how I maintained this routine for over a month now. By writing every day for 100 days continuously, I will have 100 stories about me. For a person who used to write two blogs in 2019, this is a commendable achievement.The key in process-oriented methodology is to keep setting realistic goals in the short term and scale-up the tar

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get whenever you achieve it. On day 100, I will shift the target to 250, then 365, and so on. By the end of the third year, I will have around 1000 stories about me. One thousand personal stories is a legacy in itself. And that is a constant motivation to wake up early in the morning every day and sit in the chair to document my life.<h1 id="ab36">Prepared For Next Time</h1>Writer’s block can happen anytime, and the difficulty to recover from it depends on how seriously you take it and what are your writing goals. Thinking that it is “common” makes you feel you are not the only one who has faced it. You realise there is more than one solution depending on how you got stuck, and then practice whichever solution is conducive to you. I had two options:<ul><li>Skip writing for one day and then get back tomorrow.</li><li>Maintain the daily habit because this is a mental exercise, and the brain learns better when we do any activity repeatedly.</li></ul>I went with the second one because of the system which I follow for habit development: show up every day and give your best to improve. Even if you do not see the expected results, the effort will be worth it, and you will have a good night sleep while being happy you delivered your best shot.This blog belongs to a series of posts I am publishing in this 100-days streak. Navigate to the end of the <a href="https://readmedium.com/your-phone-is-a-distraction-only-if-you-want-it-to-be-3ea75dfb081b">article 22</a> for the references from day 23 onwards. If you would like to read the ones before day 22, here is the <a href="https://readmedium.com/21-90-rule-combined-with-seinfeld-strategy-df9f7457dc11">first one</a> that documents them in the end.~ Sanjeev</article></body>

Permanent Solution to My Writer’s Block is The Journey’s Visualisation

Realisation When It Hit

Writing is challenging. Coming up with new ideas every day requires an open-minded nature to find inspiration from daily activities. You have a story to tell but can’t put it in words. Even if you do put it, the ordering is never satisfying. You keep changing sentences, finding synonyms and sometimes deleting the entire content altogether because it looks more chaos than an organisation.

Today my writing schedule felt like a stretch. I brainstormed everything including titles, sub-title, sub-headings, blog image and the king: content. I have a lot of topics in OneNote, but the constant editing fixated so hard that I barely finished a paragraph without holding backspace every few seconds.

I had to come up with something that will be worth my time.

Kept Going Anyway

Today I took the time constraint too seriously. I had my entire day planned in a tabular form which limited my freedom and forced me to finish my piece within a given time, then look at the list of tasks I have to do for the rest of the day.

I followed this kind of time-table only on school days. I wanted to see if it works now also. Knowing what task you will do at what time, doing it as expected and finishing the entire day nailing that way feels no less than an achievement nowadays. It puts us in control of the day. I planned in tabular form because I wanted to organise my day better to see if I can find the slots when I am most creative.

Embrace The Problem To Find A Solution

Day 1 did not work out so good because of strict over-planning. I usually take 30 minutes from writing the first draft to editing, publishing and sharing. Today it has extended for two hours.

I wanted to overcome this obstacle. I wanted the current learning experience to guide me whenever I face a creativity block in future. That’s why I thought of the simplest way to recover from it.

When you think of a problem as temporary, you know it won’t have a damaging effect in the long-term. We just need to find a reliable solution to it which requires minimal effort.

Morning Walk

No one ever felt bad after taking a walk. I knew it would help me too. And it did. I turned off my computer, went out of the room and walked for some time. Did not record it, but it was somewhere around 10 minutes. I wanted to find a way to recover from this short but vexed situation and see it as a learning opportunity.

While relaxing my mind and coming up with a solution to fix this, I remembered why I started in the first place. I realised how I maintained this routine for over a month now. By writing every day for 100 days continuously, I will have 100 stories about me. For a person who used to write two blogs in 2019, this is a commendable achievement.

The key in process-oriented methodology is to keep setting realistic goals in the short term and scale-up the target whenever you achieve it. On day 100, I will shift the target to 250, then 365, and so on. By the end of the third year, I will have around 1000 stories about me. One thousand personal stories is a legacy in itself. And that is a constant motivation to wake up early in the morning every day and sit in the chair to document my life.

Prepared For Next Time

Writer’s block can happen anytime, and the difficulty to recover from it depends on how seriously you take it and what are your writing goals. Thinking that it is “common” makes you feel you are not the only one who has faced it. You realise there is more than one solution depending on how you got stuck, and then practice whichever solution is conducive to you. I had two options:

Skip writing for one day and then get back tomorrow.
Maintain the daily habit because this is a mental exercise, and the brain learns better when we do any activity repeatedly.

I went with the second one because of the system which I follow for habit development: show up every day and give your best to improve. Even if you do not see the expected results, the effort will be worth it, and you will have a good night sleep while being happy you delivered your best shot.

This blog belongs to a series of posts I am publishing in this 100-days streak. Navigate to the end of the article 22 for the references from day 23 onwards. If you would like to read the ones before day 22, here is the first one that documents them in the end.

~ Sanjeev