It won’t get easier on its own

A couple of weeks ago, I watched my friend Nik present at Medium Day. He also writes every day, and he made an observation that resonated with me: If you write in the morning, you can feel proud of it all day. If you write in the evening, you can feel pressure and anxiety knowing you still have to write at some point. This felt true to me. I previously haven’t minded writing in the evening, though I did write, “Writing at this blog started as, and remains, one of my favorite parts of each day. I do have one gripe: hopefully it gets easier. My ideal time to write is in the mornings, but I have lost count of the nights that I have cradled my head, staring at the laptop screen and struggling through a post.” I have still been cradling my head in the evenings. A more useful realization was that it’s not going to magically get easier on its own. Instead, I need to create the conditions for it to become easier. One of them is writing a blog post first thing in the morning after I eat…