You may not consider yourself a “writer,” but to strengthen your writing, you don’t have to be. Good writing shouldn’t be reserved for English majors or professional authors.

My writing is still nowhere near perfect, but over the years, I’ve been bookmarking a collection of practical tricks to sharpen it — hopefully, they will help you as much as they have helped me.

When you’re addicted to something, your brain is functioning in a three part cycle: trigger, routine, reward. That’s exactly what’s happening when you keep deciding to be less than you are.