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Acknowledge your achievements
Sometimes we make excuses and think we ‘don’t have time’ to write, when in reality the problem is that we feel unmotivated.
In writing, and in life in general, keeping track of your achievements and looking back at them when you’re feeling unmotivated can give you just the push you need to pick your passion up again.
Achievements don’t have to be epic. Even remembering that little poem you wrote that one time that never got published but you loved it so much is a great reminder that you’ve got this in you, and you can do it again.
I myself often wonder what the point is. Sometimes I don’t want to get up early to write — sometimes I don’t want to write at all, especially when I don’t even know if anyone is ever going to read it.
But then I look back and I see that I’ve only gotten where I am now by showing up, one small step at a time. I have become the person my past self wanted to be.
I’ve always wanted to be a writer — and now I am. I might not be the kind of writer 8-year-old me thought I would be, but 8-year-old me didn’t know what a technical writer or a content designer was, and that you could make a living from it.
