Writing daily

I found Joshua Spodek randomly, through a Reddit post that he had replied to years ago.

I found his website, spend a few days reading through some of his stuff, and found his free coaching offer. My first thoughts were: don't waste his time. After all, the man is a big name, coaches corporate leaders and important people, so he's not going to have time for little old me.

But by the end of the week, I decided to do it anyway. After all, what's the worst that could happen? He'd say no, and I'll move on.

As it stands, he didn't say no.

I went to the call with one goal - I want to write consistently (if not daily). For the past few years, writing has been excruciatingly difficult. I almost have to wrestle myself into submission in order to write. It has been so difficult that I've seemed to lost all my love for it. And I miss loving it.

Josh introduced me to the concept of SIDCHAs: the Self-Imposed Daily Challenging Healthy Activity.

He asked me if writing would be my SIDCHA. I think it is.

He asked me to think about two amounts:

1 - the amount I can do on an average day, and

2 - the bare minimum that I can do on 'bad' days. He called these 'pinky-lift' days.

The idea is to at least do #1 (more would be great, but this is the minimum) on most average days, and do #2 on the days when I just can't for whatever reason.

My first thought was "what about the days I spent in the ICU? That definitely ranks as one of the worsts, but I literally couldn't even lift my pinky then!"

But I think that's a rare extreme. And to be honest, the only reason I thought about that situation was because it was a good excuse. I knew that would give me an out.

I want to stop finding reasons for why I can't and start thinking about why and what I can instead.

I settled on a hundred words a day.

100 isn't much. It's a decent paragraph. I'm sure I can do that on an average day.

On bad days, one sentence. It doesn't have to be good. It can suck. It can be 'I don't want to write today'. As long as I write it/type it out.

Okay, once sentence a day for six days of the week. And a quote or bible verse on Sunday (my sabbath).

If I can read the whole bible in 30 days, surely I can write a hundred words for 30 days as well.

Here's to not stopping.