by Suzanne Lieurance
The end of a focused month always presents the same quiet risk: you built something real during June, and then July arrives with its own demands, and the habit you were tending quietly disappears.
It doesn’t have to go that way. But keeping a habit alive past the month that created it requires a specific kind of intention — not more willpower, just a clearer plan.
Here’s What to Do First
The first thing to do is identify which part of this month’s visibility practice actually fit your life. Not the part you think you should keep, or the part that sounds most impressive. The part that you genuinely did, that felt sustainable, that you could imagine doing again in October when the month has no particular theme and no particular momentum.
That’s the piece to carry forward. One submission a month. A weekly check-in on your bio and website. Telling one person a week what you’re working on. Whatever it is, make it small enough to survive an ordinary week, not just an inspired one.
Do This Next
The second thing is to give the habit a home. Habits that float free of any structure tend to drift. Habits that are attached to something specific — a day, a time, a trigger — tend to stick. Decide now: when will you do your one visibility action each week? What will prompt it? What will you do when you sit down to do it?
Then Do This
The third thing is to stay connected to why it matters. The energy that carries a habit past the first month isn’t discipline — it’s meaning. If you know why visibility matters to your writing life — really know it, not just in theory but in the felt sense of what it’s like when your work reaches someone — that knowing will pull you back even on the days when nothing else does.
June built the foundation. July is where you find out whether it holds.
Make one decision today about what you’re taking with you. Write it down. Then keep that appointment with yourself next month, and the month after, and the one after that.
The June Writing Challenge gives you the full framework for this month’s visibility practice. Read it before the month ends and decide what you’re carrying into July.
Suzanne Lieurance is the author of over 40 published books and a transformational Law of Attraction coach for writers who are ready to stop waiting to feel like the real thing. At Write by the Sea, she guides writers through the identity shift that changes everything — not just the writing, but the whole life built around it. She is the publisher of Manifesting Monthly magazine and the host of Monday Morning Manifestors.
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