Teaching My Brain That First Means First
A few weeks ago I started writing first thing in the morning instead of reading what other people have written. Leaders lead, y'know?
I've discovered another benefit.
I wish I knew what this meant
I've been teaching my brain that writing is a priority. When I was checking my email, reading my daily blog reads first thing every morning, when it came time to start writing for the day it felt like an interruption of what I was already doing
Now I wake up and I write, and Facebook, blog posts, trivial emails I used to spend time on feel like an interruption of the important work of writing. My brain has accepted that what I do first is what's most important. I like that.
But wait; there's more! What we pay attention to grows. This "most important thing" is happening more often on its own. I used to struggle to write two or three blog posts a week. Now at my five different blogs (I'm still working on focus) I am writing 10 to 15 posts a week. Yesterday wrote another 3,000 words on my newest book.
There's a reason that the word priority comes from the same word as the word first. If it's the most important, do it first. Not hard to figure out. Unless you're human.
What do you think? Agree? Disagree? It's not a conversation until you say something. Go ahead. Speak up.
2 Responses to Teaching My Brain That First Means First
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Makes perfect sense. I mean, for people like us.
Start sending me writing reports, eh?
krSNAP
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But it's a great picture. It made less sense when I was just reading the text, 'night priority swim' in my email alert.
You're probably absolutely right.
I started doing that, which probably helped you do it, but now I fell off the bandwagon, and you are helping me do it again.
Probably...absolutely... I like that.
I make myself laugh.