Maxwell says, You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. So while there are definitely daily habits that you should break, there are also simple daily habits, that if you do them every day, can compound over time and help you maintain success.Īs best selling author John C. And just keep going, not edit, get things done, get things out and know that having my work out in the world was way more important than getting everything perfect. So I had to break my desire for perfection. I would read and review and edit every word as I went… trying to make each word just right.Īnd that desire to be perfect stopped me from just moving forward. I’d get distracted, I’d get up, I would go walking… anything but write that paper.Īnd even when I did write the paper, I was so focused on getting all the words perfect, that I couldn’t just get into the zone and start writing. Because I wasn’t able to just focus and get something done. And gave me a 2-week extension to get it done.īut what should have been a process that took me a week or two ended up taking me six weeks to complete. Ī week later, my professor sends me an email: Marisa, I got your paper, but it’s completely blank. So the due date hits and, out of desperation, I emailed in a blank word document. (Yes, if you’re much younger than me, you used to have to turn your papers in by hand □ This was the first time the professor was inviting paper submissions via email. I remember as an undergrad, I had a pressing deadline for a term paper - and for the life of me - I just couldn’t get it done.
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