The Power of Writing It Down: A Simple Habit to Unlock Your Brain and Reimagine Your Life

To influence someone means to have a transformative effect on their lives. To be a player in their story.

It’s easier to treat writing as a low-stakes side hobby, when the reality is that writing requires us to get up-close, personal, and gut-level honest about how we are living our lives.

Great writing begins with great questions.

Trying to tell the truth about someone else is challenging and, in the end, uninteresting. The most interesting writing, the most interesting questions, the most interesting life comes when we’re able to tell the truth about ourselves.

But notice how quick we are, at times, to assume someone else has an answer that we don’t have, that other people have access to wisdom that is not available to us, or that we have to wait for someone else to tell us what we can or can’t do before we’re allowed to act?

life.

Would you rather your influence be wide or deep?

You cannot write your words without living them. You cannot share your words without writing them.

The human soul does not crave productivity the way the human mind does.