When you reach a goal, take a moment to enjoy the accomplishment. But after you’ve learned whatever there was to learn from this chapter of your life, keep moving forward.
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In writing and exercise, sometimes there are moments of pure, unadulterated joy, and no amount of struggle seems too much to endure. I wonder if “making it look easy” is doing a disservice to people who are hard at work on their own projects for self-improvement. Tonight I come clean—it ain’t always easy! Image: prozac1 / FreeDigitalPhotos.net One of my daily routines—and a stated goal of my “projects” for the last four months—is to write at least 3,000 words per day. I started this practice almost two years ago. Usually, most of the 3,000 words are taken up by stream-of-consciousness blather, rants, and what I’d call verbal sketching—writing down what I might say if I were going to write about something in a serious manner. Writing 3,000 words usually requires two periods of about 25 minutes each. I try to get through the first one before I do any other work each day and the second some time after dinner. Sometimes the “3,000-Word Initiative” (or 3kWI) exercises yield blog posts Here’s a little trick to designing a game you can win: sometimes you have to change the rules in the middle of the game. |
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