I've been doing the thousand words a day exercise every morning since 2023. Scrivener just now popped up and said I hit 794,000 words. (The target for this month.) Aside from the obvious benefits; improving your writing, clearing your throat, and getting rid of the static in your brain before you actually start writing, it has made the thought of writing an 80,000-word book not that big a deal.
Below is the video I saw in 2023 that finally got me started and kept me going. A link to this video is the first thing I put on page one...