The beautiful thing about doing something for long enough is that eventually your subconscious starts doing most of the work for you.
Today is my 1,415th day of consecutive daily posts.*
(*Minus the days I was at Burning Man, off the grid).
And the beauty of this streak is that the task has seeped its way into my subconscious.
Which means, rather than needing to remember that I have to send a post out, actively blocking out time in my calendar, doing time-intensive brainstorms for topics, and stressing out about the final product like it was being graded by a college professor… my subconscious takes care of most of that for me.
I don’t need to remember to write—it’s an automatic reflex in my day.
I don’t need to actively block out time in my day—it’s already accounted for before I do any conscious blocking.
I don’t need to do any time-intensive brainstorms for topics to write about—my brain bubbles up ideas all day long… because it knows the writing is coming.
And as far as the stressing out about the final product? Well, after you do anything for 1,415 days in a row… hitting the submit/publish/ship button becomes a helluva lot easier and increasingly less intimidating.
This is all to say: don’t make things harder than they need to be. Do less now… so that you can do more over a longer period of time.
Eventually, the daily habit will start to take care of itself and require a fraction of what it used to when you were yo-yo-ing.
P.s. I also published: How Do I Know If Meditation Is Working?