What are daily habits?
Daily Habits are the tasks and routines you complete every single day until they become a habit.
Why do you need to set daily habits?
Setting new daily habits will feel like tasks at first because it doesn’t come natural yet. However, you want to set daily habits in order to connect to your goals and creative lifestyle.
How can you stick to daily habits as a multi passionate women?
Setting daily habits is one thing but actually showing up and sticking to them is another. The best way to stick to new daily habits is to start small and adjust your habits regularly to fit your goals. I have done a monthly daily habit reset to make sure my habits are aligned with my current goals, life circumstances and energy levels.
The 5 Steps to Setting Daily Habits as a Multi Passionate Creative Woman:
Dream
Most of you already have step one done. Dream big. Look at the big picture of your life and where you want to go. Get out your Pinterest Vision Board and shoot for the moon. You can divide your daily habits into categories to get a well rounded idea of where your life can go. Where do you see your career, health, home, finances, and relationships going in the next year? This might feel overwhelming but you do not have to focus on all areas of your life right now but just have an idea of where you want to go. Plus, change is good so don’t worry if this dream you have now changes at any point in the future.
Plan
Now that you have an idea of where you see your life it is time to get to work. Planning is so much fun and where I thrive the most in my life. I have SOOO many plans. The planning stage is a combination of delusion, acceptance and reality. There has to be hefty dose of reality or your plan will not come to life.
Make your dreams a plan by connecting daily habits to those big goals. If you wrote a list of three big areas of your life like career, health and home.
For your career you want to publish a book. That is an incredible goal but let’s break it down into a plan:
Publishing a Book —> Getting an agent —> Querying —> Completing final edits —> Beta Readers —> Hire an Editor—> Editing Draft 4 —> Editing Draft 3 —> Editing Draft 2 —> Completing the first draft —> Learning plot structure —> Coming up with the book idea
Now turn all those arrows the other one starting at “coming up with the book idea and get to work right? Well, technically yes but you can make it even easier to your self. Take a look at the step you are on.
Let’s say you already have an epic book idea, you have picked the 3 act structure and are writing in First Person. You are now on completing the first draft. What is one daily habit you can do to accomplish this goal? Opening your manuscript, writing 500 words a day, outlining a character arc, creating a map of your world are all tasks you can do in order to get the first draft over the finish line.
Break down all your big goals until you know exactly where you are in the journey to see where to spend your time and energy.
Embody
This is the step that many people avoid doing or feeling really weird doing it. And the weird feeling is suppose to be there because you are fighting your comfort zone to become a version of yourself that has accomplished your goals.
Who is the author version of you? The one who has 10 published books, getting ready to go on another book tour or writing retreat. How would she write her first draft? What is her writing rituals to get into the creative mood?
Dive into this persona while keeping current you in mind. There is a level of reality that has to connect to these wild dreams. If this other version of you is writing full time and right now you have two jobs embodying this life will feel very difficult. Embody the moment of writing. When you sit at your desk or a coffee shop or kitchen table you are know the author with tons of published books, the feeling of seeing your book on the shelf at the bookstore brings a sense of calm, joy and pride. Sit in that emotion every time you work on that first draft.
Connect a feeling with the bigger picture that you can sit with right now.
Execute
Once you know what you will be doing and how you will feel while doing it is time to execute your plan. Most multi passionate creatives will stop here. Executing is way to uncomfortable because you might be seen, judge or rejected. Execute your dreams with a guillotine. Drag your dreams screaming. Do not think about the end result, take that tiniest of actions like releasing a string. Does it matter that a weighted blade falls and beheads your dreams into a basket?
Executing your dream means integrating that one step in your dream sequence into your day to day. This is the daily habit of writing for 20 minutes or 200 words. When will you write? Where will you right? How much time do you really have to write in your current reality?
Take a look at your current schedule and responsibilities and designate time to your daily habits. When i completed my 75 medium challenge I calculated all 5 of my habits and to complete them all was about 3 hours of my life every day. That made me realize that 3 hours is nothing when it came to my current habits. Just look at your watch time on your phone and see if you have 3 hours to spare. You do.
Adapt
Now since life is every evolving you have to be patient with yourself. You won’t be perfect. You won’t write every single day, the plot will make you feel stuck, your dreams will feel so far away that you question why the efff you are still trying.
Plan to adapt. You can adjust your goals, your schedule and your mindset at any point in time. Tell yourself that you will workout angry. You will write even if it is four words. You will meal prep at 10 PM at night because you know future you needs the structure of prepped meals to stay on track. Be willing to be uncomfortable in pursuit of your dreams.
Building daily habits takes time and effort. Think about the things in your life that are on autopilot right now? Do you doom scroll for the first hour of the morning like clock work and then the rest of your day is miserable or do you start with a morning walk that is refreshing and sets your day up with clarity.
You have the power to change the trajectory of your life by focusing on the daily habits. It will feel pointless in the moment because we live in an instant gratification nation that tells you if it is not immediate it is not worth your time. But you get to decide what is worth it for your dream life.
Start now.
Another reminder is that steps Dream, Plan and Embody should be done quicker than executing and adapting. Most people will stay in the Dream, Plan, Embody phase because it’s safer. The sooner you start trying and taking action, the better off you be. And the closer to your goals you will get.
Set your daily habits now and watch your life change in a matter of months.