Was it the time frame or the sense of calm I felt emanating from this usually chaotic person on the other end of the screen? Or was it just that I finally decided to listen to what people were telling me? Either way, the next night I decided to download the audiobook, which is narrated by the author. I can’t say what it was, exactly, about this particular recommendation that drew me in. One member perks up, looking a bit more alert than the rest of us, and creditsĪtomic Habits by James Clear for taking her out of her creative slump and helping her feel a sense of control in this eerie moment we all found ourselves living in. In my now-virtual writers' group, we chat about what we are all reading. "It’s too X + Y equals Z."įast forward to April of 2020-a few years since the book’s initial boom-and I am feeling sluggish and supremely unproductive in a pandemic-induced haze. It is for all of these reasons, that despite this book being recommended by friend after friend in the year following its release date, I avoided reading it. I pay attention to my intuition and believe deeply in the things we cannot see. I feel sometimes like a walking whirlwind of feelings, an open nerve, my days often changing drastically depending on the rise and tide of my moods. As anyone who knows me will tell you, I’m a person who tends to get caught up in emotion.
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