It’s gotten easier to pick a thread and follow it when I sit down to write. These short bursts, even across a week and a half or so, have already made strides. It’s making writing a part of my day, a task that must be checked off, but a low-stakes one. It becomes like brushing teeth or getting in practice for the languages I’m learning. It is not a grand thing I must fret about or feel bad when I don’t get done—it’s a couple hundred words I need to write. It’s five minutes of my day, longer if I desire.
I don’t know if I will hold myself to this challenge come July. Partly because I know my schedule for July will pick up and I will have less time, but also because I think part of what makes this goal feel so achievable is that I know it has an end date. The practice itself is meant to help me shift my habits on a larger scale, but the task itself feels doable because I know I only need to do it for a month. The stakes are low, and they are small, and it is just the right amount that fits into my schedule and energy levels.
But to completely leave the practice doesn’t feel right, either. This is meant to have a larger impact for me. I intend for what I am doing this June on this blog to help me build back a foundation of writing. Build the habits, see them through. Make writing a non-negotiable part of my days, not just something I do when I have the energy. Motivation takes you only so far, after all. I’ve written about that before and I think about even more.
I don’t yet know what I will do. Perhaps I will talk about it more as the end of the month nears. There is a good chance of it—I am rather reflective and my thoughts on how writing this month has gone is likely to show up in my posts as that time nears. Time will tell. Until then, I am happy with how this project has gone. I look forward to writing these little posts, short and sweet as they are.
