What You Do Right Now Could Change Your Life in 3 Months

Your life can start with a single step.

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Just put words on the page.

That’s what I tell myself whenever I can’t write.

Short words. Long ones. Curse words. Words that only a handful of people can understand. Any word at all. Because if you have one word, you have the beginning of a story.

The.
He.
Yesterday.
Superman.

If you were to give yourself a moment, you’d be able to come up with words to follow those ones. You’d end up creating an entire sentence. Again: the start of a story.

The man fell off the roof.
He turned left instead of right.
Yesterday I stole a car.
Superman flew across the sky.

Just words on the page. I started this with “just” and now I’m here. I had no plan, and now I’m here.

Life works like that too. When you take one step forward, your life — your story — develops.

But you can’t see the big picture immediately. When I write The man, anything can happen next. When I write The man fell, he could fall off of anything. It’s not until I reach the end…