#PowerOf23# Day 23 - 23 Things I learnt by writing @PowerOf23 Series

My contacts who are acquainted with me, know that I had always been a fiction writer, who periodically wrote only about fiction. Writing about emotions, love stories, relationships, imaginary things was natural to me without an additional effort.

So when I decided to write the #PowerOf23# series, I was apprehensive as till this month I had never ventured writing on Non-Fictional content so far as I believed Non-Fiction Content to be topic of experts, eminent professionals in the field of psychology, human behaviour studies and/or professionals from Human Resource Background, in general who are excellent public speakers, blessed with the power of vocabulary, understanding, reasoning, creativity and positive thoughts. Thankfully, I expressed my anxiousness to my friend Suchitra Kamble and she advised me to focus on writing my experience, my thoughts, my feelings rather than focusing on world, focusing on the content or vocabulary and how it will be perceived by the world at large.

Writing this write up/article everyday became a project of thinking, analysing, researching, strategizing and more of releasing stress. The after maths of writing was discussion late night with Suchitra as why did I had this thought? what was the key take away of the article? where did I fall short ? how to be better at it in the next write up including sometimes what should be the topic for next day article. This continuous immediate feedback helped me immensely in writing better, focused and constructively in the past few days. Strange it may seem as days passed by, I got more involved and absorbed in this writing project and it became a core part of my day to unwind. I use to read at the end of the day to unwind and writing took precedence over my reading. The feedback and encouragement I received from you all who are yet reading this so far today and have continuously read it, commented, provided feedback was the instant motivation along with the assurance that writing my thoughts, collating it has in fact created a difference, an impact and somewhere in my own limited way I made a difference.

With this thought, let’s end our @PowerOf23 series with how writing #PowerOf23# evolved, helped and engaged me. I would like to share with you 23 most important things I learnt will writing this series which will create a positive change in my everyday life henceforth.

1.Stay Committed: In spite of an extremely busy day working and doing household chores yet writing every single day ensured that I keep up my commitment towards writing.

2.Be Focussed: Writing made me analyse and structure my thoughts, also it helped me in drafting with right words strategizing, researching, communicating and spreading good vibes. Additionally, writing about my thoughts will help me in achieving my dreams as it has definitely helped me in being focused.

3. Forming Habits: Writing got ingrained in me and it became a habit to write at the end of the day.

4. Better Communication: It assisted me in communicating with clarity. When you write you describe your thoughts with better words and allows you to communicate complex ideas in an effective manner.

5. Clarity of Thoughts: Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking, to have constructive positive thoughts goes a long way in ensuring a decent article.

6. Forget Pain: Yes writing relieves you of physical pain and mental agony too.

7. Spread Positivity :The basic purpose for which I started writing “Spread Positivity”, got achieved. I was able to spread positivity in these days of lockdown, create interest for reading and helped few of my contacts see the positive side of their life.

8. Creating Productivity: You will be more productive. Writing activates the neurons in your brain and makes you active, more productive and you see things with different view point

9. Make New Friends: Few of my acquaintances are now friends as writing made me connect with their thoughts and align their thoughts to happiness and creativity.

10.Eliminate Stress : Writing will benefit you by eliminating stress of thinking and worrying of future and of things that probably has minute chances to occur. It made me give up thinking of those things which were subconsciously part of my life and which were adding to stress.

11. Be Creative : Writing made me think of so many things around me which I took for granted. It enhanced my thinking spectrum to a higher level.

12.Learn More: Writing in my own words helped me in assimilating and consolidating knowledge and learning more as each article led to lot of reading and research in addition to structuring thoughts in a better vocabulary.

13.Revive Relations: Friends from past contacted when they read my writing, thus writing helped me in reviving old connects.

14. Awareness: Writing makes you aware of yourself, your surrounding and the reality around. If you write down what you have in mind each day, what you expect to achieve and how you are feeling, you won’t need a shrink when you are down or on negative trail of thoughts for you are aware of what you are and you have realised it yourself.

15. Better Decisions: You will make better decisions. When writing you clear up your thoughts and, obviously, a clearer thinking allows you to make better choices.

16.Be Popular: Writing #PowerOf23# series has made me popular within my inner circle.

17.Happy: Writing will make you happier as you would go back in past and imagine those situations or ride in future and think of scenarios or just observe the universe around and find things to make you smile.

18. Have Fun: If writing is your passion then writing long articles is not monotonous or boring, it creates spark within you when you finish an article, it creates happiness, it is fun.

19.Career Prospects: Writing can be additional career to legal practice that what I did realise.

20.Prepared for Adversity: To think of all pros and cons this perspective has been given by writing. I will be prepared for adversities better going forward.

21. Creating Memories: Down the line, this will create lot of written memories, historical record of your thoughts and definitely interesting than a simple photo album. And, who knows, maybe I will end up publishing a book.

22. Utilise Time Constructively: I did something constructively rather than wiling away my time in this lockdown.

23.Better Person: In these 23 days, I experienced a variety of emotions - happiness, sadness, pain, was a great mom, was a bad mom, mean, independent, realised my strengths, had mood swings from happy to angry to moody to clumsy, confident, felt beautiful, happy, caring daughter, overcame my vulnerability, behaved craxy, enhanced my vocabulary, evolved as a writer, became a mentor, creator, motivator, guide, friend, confidant, became foresighted, experienced anxiety, stress, believed in magic, depended on people, became charitable and maybe more. But overall I became A Better Person!

Well, Let me know how did you like this series. I will eagerly await your feedback and to end this @PowerOf23 series writing, I would like to conclude that writing everyday strengthen me with “23 Powers” to add to our @PowerOf23 series, which I never knew I had 23 days back and have summarised it below:-

• Power to Write,

• Power to Write A Lot,

• Power to Write for Making a Difference,

• Power to Write for Connecting,

• Power to Write for Enjoyment,

• Power to Write for Fun,

• Power to Write for Evoking Feelings,

• Power to Write for Overall Thinking,

• Power to Write to Overcome Negativity,

• Power to Write for Motivation,

• Power to Write for Enhancing Vocabulary,

• Power to Write for Encouragement,

• Power to Write for Creativity,

• Power to Write for Managing Expectations,

• Power to Write for Creating Purpose,

• Power to Write for Utilizing Time Constructively,

• Power to Write for Memories,

• Power to Write for Being Committed,

• Power to Write for Staying Focussed,

• Power to Write for Managing Stress,

• Power to Write for Positivity,

• Power to Write with Passion, and last but not least

• Power to Write Everyday!

(C) Prachee Kamat @PowerOf23 @PowerOfPositivity @BeliefOfAWoman @BeingAStrongWoman @BeingHappy @LifeIsGood