Meta hedjog has a habit
Having one of those days when I don't feel anything inspiring or sparking off a post, but still feel I should post something, because I am in the habit of posting something every day.
So I'm going with being meta about doing things as a habit.
Which I think can be a rather good thing, because it gets me into the momentum of doing something rather than hanging around for inspiration to strike, and really, this can be useful.
Given that if you stop doing something, or only do it occasionally and randomly, it can drop right off the agenda. Whereas if you are doing it in however lackadaisical a habitual fashion, it's there as an existing container for when the spark ignites again.
Not to mention, the general incrementality of doing something gets you somewhere - I have been noting some significant advances in my yoga practice and while some of this is doubtless down to the style of the new instructor, it wouldn't be happening without the previous years of not feeling I was getting beyond a certain point.
A related thing, though it's not actually about continued habit, is how I have dealt with rather challenging projects outside my daily work and against a deadline, which has been to do something on them every day (including weekends), even if it's only getting the footnotes consistent and the bibliography sorted.
I think this may actually be yet another reprise of the small steps theme upon which I have expatiated heretofore.
This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/1555844.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
comments.