1590. It’s been a while

It’s been a while since I posted, and after almost 1600 posts,

the habit died off.

It’s humbling because nothing is a sure thing

Things take effort.

I guess I thought that even after 1600 posts or so, this writing thing would just keep going

And with the big changes I had this year,

a new job, working a lot more hours

quitting that job

and settling back into a new routine

This blog thing became less, and less important.

Habits are peculiar, ever hear of James clear? The guy that wrote the slam-dunk of a book atomic habits?

He talks about the fact that habits are formed through a four-step loop: cue, craving, response, and reward. About how small changes compound over time and by just improving 1% daily leads to being 37 times better after a year. (that’s a lot). He pushes the concepts of making good habits obvious, attractive, easy, and satisfying while making bad habits invisible, unattractive, difficult, and unsatisfying. He explains that we need to focus on the systems (processes) rather than goals (outcomes) for lasting change with Identity-based habits working out the best for people – it’s more about becoming the type of person who does the behavior we’re striving for vs just pursuing the outcome.

Embracing the writer mentality.

I don’t write on here to be famous, to make money, or for any real reason other then a place to store my thoughts, a hub for all things valuable (to me)

and that habit is slowly going to start building itself back up into the MOMENTUM I had going before.

I had written a life time goal to get 5,000 posts onto this website

and looking back, I think that’d be a cool achievement in life

so here’s to post 1590.

And another 3,410 posts to go (at least)

It won’t happen tomorrow, it won’t happen in a year or even 3,410 days.

It might take me 20 or 30 years to achieve this goal

and that’s okay, it doesn’t really matter to me when I cross the finish line, just as long as I do

Till next time my friends