To be free, freewrite.

What’s the most important habit you can start in 2019?

Freewriting.

It’s the act of writing down by hand, whatever comes to mind as quickly as possible for 20 minutes. It can be used as a tool to improve your creativity, or it can be used to process negative emotions. However you use, it changes your life.

It’s the secret sauce used by billionaire investors like Ray Dalio, wildly successful authors like Tim Ferriss, Elizabeth Gilbert and Seth Godin, and even used by people like Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs as a way to get in touch with their inner creativity.

Why?

They’ve used it to get past their inner censor and to “see” their current thoughts. Once you can see your thoughts, then you can consciously change them to create the life you want.

I was skeptical – how can writing things down on a page change your life? I tried it for a month and was incredibly surprised by the results. I started getting lucky. But like lucky like “this is really weird – this never happens to me” kind of lucky. People would offered me free bikes. I found $100 bills in the streets. Even girls I never spoke to would walk up to me and ask me out on dates.

It baffled me but I’m not going to complain. Now it’s the one habit I must do daily because of the luck that I’ve gotten since I started doing it.

Whether you freewrite to get lucky, to become more creative or just to vent, freewriting is what all the cool kids are doing now. It’s time to start writing in 2019.