Rules are meant to be broken if they slow you down. Don’t tell me that this is a paradox because this in and of itself is also a rule.

You don’t have to honor or follow the habit. You need to reach or get to a rewarding and valuable outcome that makes a difference. This is where ignoring the method comes into play.

Methods are there to make your life easier, not to push you around in arbitrary directions for your own good whether they make sense or not, or whether you feel like it or not. You will not get to a worthy outcome or anything worthwhile in terms of how you feel or accomplishing a desired external result or goal if you submit to the habit, method, ritual, or way that gets or could get you there instead of focusing on or caring about the outcome or end result more. Screw it’s about the journey. It’s not. It’s all about outcomes. The battle was waged because they wanted to instill into you the notion that you shouldn’t do what you hate for the money. But instead follow your passion. That is understandable. But when it comes to fulfillment, happiness, and well-being, only reward makes the difference, counts, or matters.

The point is, habits are not here to relieve you of the burden of having to make decisions because that is too much energy consuming. They are here because this is how it was done before. It’s just the way it is. This is how this activity was carried out last time. They don’t care. It doesn’t have to be efficient. They don’t have to be the best way to do something. They are just there to say: we weren’t stupid last time. We were right, because we exist. It’s like life that wants to protect itself. Habits are not a power. They are anti power and anti intelligence. They are not here to make your life easier. They are there to make your life a living hell. Everything horrible in your life could be traced back to habit. Everything good could be traced back to wanting to do something with disregard to your habits. It’s the routine that is killing you. Sucking the life out of you, day after day, leaving nothing behind.

This doesn’t mean that the purpose of your life is to keep doing different things every day, and not form any kind of habitual behavior, perform any recurring activities, or do anything on a regular basis. You need to exercise every day. Period. What I’m criticizing here is not behavioral habit. It’s neurological habits.

Remember when they told you that your sadness is just recurring negative thought patterns? As in a habit of focusing on what makes you feel bad, jumping from one thought to the next, where the nature of the new thought is based upon the nature of the previous one, and since the initial thought was dark, sad, or negative, it triggered a series of thoughts of similar nature or mood? Clearly that kind of habit could be distinguished from taking a shower every day, which is not something I would ever advise you against.

Don’t be a prisoner of your own habits, methods, rituals, or ways. They are useless. They just slow you down. What matters is the end result that makes a difference. Get there by any means necessary.

It doesn’t matter how you brush your teeth. What matters is that you got the process of brushing your teeth over with, one way or the other.

Being creative doesn’t mean you get ideas without doing anything. It means that when you’re given the conditions to create, you do wonders and you always end up amazing yourself.

You should try to write even if you have nothing new to write about. Just sit and try to write something. As opposed to only attempting to write when you have something to say that needs to be captured in written word because it’s too valuable to dismiss as just another pointless thought that crossed your mind while taking a shower or walking down the street.

You don’t write because you have discovered something worth writing only. You write in order to discover new things while writing or trying to write. You come up with ideas, thoughts, and things to write as you write, during the writing process or session, and not only before embarking on the process of writing.

Do not expect ideas to come to you when you are away from the place that you instantly can or are supposed to write them in.

Do not try to sit down and think of something to write. Open the place where you’re supposed to write in, and start thinking about what to write when you can instantly start writing down whatever that comes to mind right away without any kind of delay whatsoever.