In some sense, journaling is the mother of all habits, as it can spawn a million others. Here’s what happened when I set out to journal a thousand words a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As we go along in life, we become fans of certain people. thought leaders, celebrities, or just interesting people. Two of my favorites share the common trait of maintaining a website where they share life experiences and views with zeal. I thought, How do they do that? Where did they find the time and what was their process?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n “Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”<\/p>Francis Bacon<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n At work I began to appreciate the power of the written word to drive positive change and became fond the last part of the quote above. Delving into how writing is done, I learned many authors make a habit of a daily word count, some number of words that they must write each day. The number doesn’t matter, just that there is one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then I picked my number and began to type. In the beginning writing was hard and it took time to build the habit but I persisted and over weeks the text grew. Scrolling through it looked like chaos nut this was the raw material from which I could extract and sharpen views of my own, so I read and edited, fixing typos, collecting questions and intentions alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not long after, I realized I was repeating myself. I would write about the same idea more than once, nagging, persuading, convincing (maybe playing) myself. At some point, I had to<\/em> buy my dream car. I had to<\/em> quit big tech. I had to take a year to get fit and read more and now I have to publish this<\/em>. People talk about a calling, and this isn’t religion but all of this came from within. It just needed to breathe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s clear as day that journaling leads to a higher form of consciousness, one imbued with granite-like persistence, reliable storage added to an organ that notoriously forgets and changes it’s story. The mighty journal gives you a chance to replay the tape in a sterile setting removed from the chaotic context of original experience. It can be a lot to handle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 4th, 2021 – It has been worth the effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In some sense, journaling is the mother of all habits, as it can spawn a million others. Here’s what happened when I set out to journal a thousand words a day. As we go along in life, we become fans of certain people. thought leaders, celebrities, or just interesting people. Two of my favorites share […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsterry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}