The Magic Of “Halfway” Habits For Writers (And Everybody Else)

Learn to be a half-assed hero, and you’ll be surprised at how much potential you unlock!

Photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash

Let me make an educated guess about you, dear reader. You are a creative person who has read a fair bit of literature on the topic of productivity, success, and your given craft.

You’ve used planners and tried BuJo or the Franklin Covey method, and you love the idea of an organized, color-coded to-do list sitting neatly on your desk each morning.

You can work hard and often do — but still, you always have this sense that you’re underachieving. When you accomplish something important, the high lasts a little while…then you’re back to that nagging sense of not having done enough. Like your habits, routines, and regularities simply aren’t hitting “the mark,” whatever it may be.

I know exactly how you feel.

Whether you’re a writer like me, an engineer like my boyfriend, or a part-timer at a local store, we all get caught up in that sense of not “measuring up” to the standards our inner self is capable of. Many of these standards naturally center around the ways we structure our lives.

We judge ourselves based on our routines and habits — broadly speaking, we “measure”…