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Tip 5: Bright-line goal setting
Make your writing goals clear and unambiguous so you can't miss them.
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Chris Smith
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Bec Evans
Failing to focus & write? It’s not your fault.
Why productivity hacks aren’t always the solution & how building resilience takes a community not just personal action.
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Bec Evans
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Chris Smith
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Tip 5: Design a shut down ritual
Let's inject some magic into your writing day with ritual, inspiration from Cal Newport to bookend your day, leave work at your desk and reduce stress.
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Chris Smith
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Bec Evans
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What does resilience mean?
Defining resilience not as the power to tough things out but the vulnerability to ask for help. Angela Duckworth updates 'grit', we ask a favour for the…
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Chris Smith
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Bec Evans
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Tip 4: Visualise your writing goal
The first step in setting a goal is to dream big - here's how.
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Chris Smith
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Bec Evans
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Why choose to do hard things?
When a crisis of confidence hits and you want to give up - the benefits of keeping going. A month of resilience-themed posts.
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Chris Smith
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Bec Evans
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Tip 3: The cliff-hanger effect
How unresolved actions keep you writing.
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Bec Evans
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Chris Smith
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