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 decide on the bare minimum that I can do - whether that's a number of words, a certain activity, a certain amount of time, etc - regardless of my circumstances.

Meaning, if I have the best day of my life and I'm physically bopping around because I'm buzzing, the minimum amount is something I can still do.

If I have the worst day of my life and I'm an emotional wreck because of grief, the minimum amount is still something I can do.

My first thought was the days I spent in the ICU because of the flu. But I think that's the extreme and it wouldn't count. And to be honest, I only thought about that situation because I knew that would give me an 'out'.

But barring that extreme circumstance, I know I can write a sentence daily.

One sentence a day. 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).

There you go.

Let's see what happens in 30 days.

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

Now to put that in writing to Josh for accountability, and to keep it up for 30 days.

Fun times.