I’m a creative writer, so my mind is always full of beautiful, as well as awful ideas. When I revise, I delete the awful.
My New Year’s Resolution is to wage a revolution in the minds of people for their own Happy Thinking when they write to start with.
Above, the image of Science Solitaire is saying you will make yourself a lot of New Year’s Resolution and will fail all of them.
Negative. Yes if you don’t know how to reinforce a habit you are trying to cultivate.
It’s okay. You don’t have to think the way I think; but you have to write happy if you want readers to read you.
Above, Rappler’s choice of an article about New Year Resolutions, by Maria Isabel Garcia, is good but not good enough. About 1,350 words including title; it’s all about habits, but it never asks and therefore never answers the question:
Why should you cultivate a habit at all?
Miss Maria says:
“1. Habits are our brain’s way to be more efficient.” No, I don’t think so. Like repeating a thought is not efficiency – it is merely convenience.
“2. “Cue” and “reward” are habit’s yin and yang.” No arguments there.
“3. Once you have done something often enough, that pattern gets to be tucked away in a ‘museum’ in your head.” Poor analogy, Miss Maria. A habit is automatic – you don’t look for where you have hidden that behavior somewhere in your head.
“4. Our brains do not care what you make into a habit.” Yes, they do not, Miss Maria, if you are a clueless person – or heartless.
“5. Habits are ‘natural,’ but they are not necessarily moral.” Right, Miss Maria! So we have to be careful which habit to cultivate.
“6. Facts and science do not break habits.“ No, only a strong will can break a habit.
“7. The best way to make a habit is to make it easy on your brain.” I disagree, Miss Maria. The best way to cultivate a habit is to see the reward immediately – and to see that reward repeated when you repeat a habit.
This is a habitual creative thinker speaking!
“If it's a person who triggers bad habits, maybe you can try avoiding that person starting this year.” No, Miss Maria, please do not blame others for your bad habits!
You yourself must cultivate The Habit of Happy Thinking!
Instead of criticizing, go and learn more about the subject. Never think you know enough already – if you want to write better, you have to say something newer or nicer.
When you write, you want to be appreciated, right? I know two educated people who are intelligent but negative thinkers, UP graduates. And so they will never be able to write and be appreciated by others!
The way you think is the way you write. You have to have a happy attitude while you write, or you will make your readers unhappy!@517
