Habit-building.

Sep 12, 2024 18:16

Amazing how easy it is to not write. All it takes a few days in a row of me forgetting to turn on the ColdTurkey Writer app before logging off for the night, and suddenly I have half a week without writing anything.

My measure of a habit's durability, though, is how easily it can be resumed if/when interrupted. Breakfast > chai > private morning devotions > vacuum > groom dog > morning devotions with Mom > get dressed for work is my most resilient string of habits at the moment; 2.5 months of very spotty practice and yet it started up again, smooth as anything, once I decided summer vacation was over and I really needed to get back to full productivity.

Strings of actions that fit together via some sort of internal logic seem to be the best way to go at it, at least for me. Trying to do something new, all on its lonesome, is almost a guarantee of failure. There has to be some existing structure for it to hook onto, even if it's just mealtimes or physical proximity.

writing about writing, book of days, home life

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