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Like many writers, I’ve been kicking around an idea for a novel for years. I wrote part of my tale during a less busy time in my life years ago. But I couldn’t build momentum. I’d write a bit, then abandon the project for months.
This is a problem many people face, I learned while writing about workday schedules for my recent book. We have grand ideas for where to take our careers someday, but immediate deadlines or meetings or aggressive coworkers always seem to take precedence on Monday morning. Internal motivation is powerful, but it’s easier to say no to ourselves rather than the rest of the world.
So what do successful people do They create external motivations for things they want to do but that life has a way of crowding out. They create accountability systems that boost important but not urgent items to the top of their priority lists—ideally in a way that makes failure really uncomfortable.
Nika Stewart, for instance, owns a social media marketing business. She’s also part of an accountability group called the 7-Figure Club. Every Monday, each entrepreneur checks in online to determine the amount of a week’s work that will advance her toward her annual goals. Then on Friday, everyone checks back in to say whether she met her goal. If Stewart’s weekly goal, shared with the group on Monday, was to send out 10 proposals, she tells me, "Thursday night, if I didn’t do it, I might stay up and do it." Why She doesn’t want to look lazy to people whose opinion she cares about.
I knew I needed an accountability system for myself, or my novel would never get written. Late last year, I found my partner Katherine Reynolds Lewis. I’m almost embarrassed to say how effective this little shift in approach was. Being accountable to Katherine made me want to write 2,000 words, just so I could e-mail her saying I’d written them. There weren’t any real consequences to failing, but the part of my brain that learned to turn in papers on time in school years ago leapt to attention once it had an assignment.
"Write 2,000 words" got a spot on my to-do list. In 10 weeks, I had enough words (20,000) to have a sense of how I intended to shape the second half of the book. By April 15,! had my draft. What is the main idea of the passage