The bad habit that's gotten me in trouble, with the need to play catch-up and daily-writing avoidance, is that I'm targeting the blog count. I'm trying to average less than five minutes, which is quite short. The process is important, the output is not. The idea is not to write amazing journal posts every day, and have a minimum ideal practice. My goal is to write everyday, make a habit out of observations and just get more comfortable with jotting down thoughts. This 'count-based' target system doesn't allow for that.
What's the idea then? Sit down for an hour, every day. Start timer for 12 minutes. Start writing. Don't stop until 12 minutes are over. Rest for a minute or two. Go again. And do that five times. Because the writing will be timeboxed at an hour, it won't feel like forever, and if I do it regularly, it won't feel tiring either. That's how one gets things done regularly, without the need to justify to the world, or to oneself. It's important to appreciate the process of writing, the thoughts and processes that go behind it. Writing is a discovery of the self, understanding how one's mind works, and using that as tool to understand a little more about humanity in general. Optimizing the process away gains nobody anything.
Write by hours, commit by the timeblock, not by the post count~
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