No matter what, you must begin with the King's Habit. This is from Steven King. Yes, the author. THAT Steven King. The King's Habit, Steven's habit, is to write 6 pages a day. If you seek a life of freedom. If you seek to have the strength, fortitude, resilience, clarity, and, yes, even the vocabulary, to be able to live the life of freedom you want, you must be able to write. The purpose of the King's Habit is to nurture your thinking. To be able to string together 6 pages of journal entries, fiction, non-fiction, blogs, poetry,... heck, ANYTHING, is the Gym of the Mind. I am at the gym no less than 2 hours a day except on rest days. Two whole freakin' hours. Can I find the 20 minutes to write something? To express myself? To shape my thoughts, to direct them, in order to be a better communicator? If you think you can't you're lost already! You can! You truly can! If you can skim your feeds for 40 minutes, you can write 6 pages. In fact, It has been no more than 9 minutes since I began writing this morning. (I started in my journal.) And then I bridged here, to write this piece about the King's Habit. Is it "good"? Probably not. Is it "true"? You bet your Sketchers it is. Try it today. Set a time for 10 minutes. Then just down load your thoughts. It will not come easy. Don't expect it to. But the more you write, the more catharsis your brain experiences, the more fluid the words can become. It is like the gym. Can you remember when you started at the gym? Can you remember how silly you felt? Can you remember how little progress you felt like you made? Yes, you'll feel like that. But you didn't quit the gym. And you won't quit this. If there were only two habits I had to recommend to live a life of freedom, it is the Spartan Habit (the gym) and the King's Habit. This is the path to philosopher kings. This is the path to freedom.