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The Power Of Creating Habits

Mark Thompson
2 min readAug 2, 2024

Create “Sneaky Habits” That Grow into Something Bigger

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If you’ve read any of my previous content, you’ve probably heard me talk about how beneficial my morning walk to the local cafe has been.

Part of my walk

It’s where I mentally write the day's content and work out what I will do for the rest of the day.

Except it’s recently changed… that daily walk to the cafe turned into a 90-minute walk along the beach, and today it’s turned into a 7km run (well, as much as someone with very little feeling in their left-hand side can run!)

It’s what I call a sneaky habit.

And I love these sneaky habits that sneak up on you.

Sneaky Writing Habits.

My writing habit is the perfect example of a sneaky habit. Two years ago, I committed to writing ONE tweet a day.

Sometimes, it was a struggle to even do that, but I stuck at it, and it got easier. Before long, that tweet was easy; I didn’t need to think about it.

I then committed to expanding that short-form content into a weekly long-form article.

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Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson

Written by Mark Thompson

Veteran Content Marketer, Keeping it Simple and Sharing What Works in my regular newsletter: https://substack.com/@simpleisprofit

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