Habits are for your worst days
If it doesn’t work on hard days, do you truly have a habit?
Habits are for the hard days.
On easy days, on days when you have time, energy, willpower, performing the task is easy.
On hard days, on days when you’re utterly spent, have zero time, when performing the task is too hard. That’s when habit systems are the most important.
Because if it doesn’t work on your worst days, do you truly have a habit?
When I started my 1 Github commit per day habit, it was easy. I was fully focused on my indie products. There’s no consulting, no other projects.
Now, I’m juggling 3-4 gigs all at once.
I’m exhausted. I’m running on fumes, or stress. I’m so short on time I got to work weekends.
That’s when habit systems help me stay committed and keep going at it consistently.
Because I don’t ever want to end up like what happened to me last year – drifting through the months, and in a blink of an eye I was near the end of the year, without much commits on my Github chart, with no new products to speak of. Another year without progress. That’s my worst nightmare.
My habit system of 1 commit/day keeps that nightmare at bay, one tiny code tweak at a time.
Habits are for your worst days.