How to Invest in Yourself

This is a far more structured and formal approach to a process I recently devised and have been following. It started with a realization that this idea of 'finish it later' was shooting me in the foot, and after almost a decade of half finished and abandoned projects/ideas/wishlist items I needed to change to make things happen.

If i were to add one component to this framework it would be the act of finishing things. Break down immediate and long term items to the point where you have that feedback of completion. Build it up from your minimal attention tolerance all the way til the item demands your attention until its done.

I recently finished a first (AND second) draft of a novel for NaNoWriMo using this philosophy. 1600 words a day every day. And before that I practiced with blurbs building up to Writing Prompt responses that went up to short story scale.