How does writing consistently transform your life?

Writing consistently can transform your life by clarifying your thinking, ideas, and thought processes surrounding the subjects you’re writing about.

It may sound like a cliché answer, but it’s cliché for a reason.

Let me explain why.

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Writing consistently clarifies your thinking by:

• developing ways to teach others about the subject

• establishing different ideas surrounding your opinion or claim

• answering deeper questions that forces additional learning

By clarifying the way you think, one narrows down their opinions and ideas around what they’re writing about.

If you write about something enough, you’ll find yourself developing a philosophy around your ideas.

For example:

When I began writing about digital marketing, I started to unravel the ideas I had related to digital marketing. Writing forced me to dive deeper into my subject and expand on my ideas. I soon had discovered proven beliefs through research that I had to articulate many times in different ways.

One of these deeply held philosophies that I have since developed is the idea that leads for a small business are about as close in importance to a business as oxygen is to a human.

Before writing consistently, of course I knew leads were important, but I hadn’t yet articulated its importance in this way.

Through writing I expanded on this idea and started telling others why leads are like oxygen for a business. This thought process would have never occurred to me without consistently writing. And it has transformed my life because I put emphasis on this exact concept in my two businesses.

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By using writing to teach others through your experiences, establish your ideas, and to force deeper learning, one can eventually be viewed as an authority on a subject.

When this happens, one’s life really can change.

By writing about a particular subject for long enough, and by putting your writing out into the world for others to see, eventually people will begin to link you with your chosen topic. When they have a question about the topics you write about, they’ll look to see what you have to say about it first.

A great example?

Neil Patel.

Neil Patel is a digital marketer who helps businesses grow their brand online.

He’s known for being an expert in SEO marketing.

You can hardly be in the digital marketing world without knowing Neil’s name. He has enough research, experience, and video and written content to be seen as an authority in his subject field.

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Even if you don’t want to share your writing, I encourage you to start writing.

Clarifying your thinking forces you to get specific about your ideas, opinions or research. You will become a well-rounded person and develop a way to communicate what you think and feel.

The power of consistently writing is immeasurable.