With any good habit I try to form, my natural procrastination threatens me with logic. Why try to write an hour each day when you could just set aside 7 hours in one day each week? The company I work for recently introduced an alternative work week, that would allow me to have half a day off each week. Wouldn’t it be easy to use that time for writing and take the rest of the week off? Assuming I could make myself sit and write for 7 hours straight, that could be more productive than eeking out a little each day.
Then realism hits me. I’m about as likely to follow through with that as I am to run a marathon once a week and lie on the couch the other days. Or, while I’m at it, why don’t I write for 365 hours straight (that’s only 15 days) and then take the rest of the year off. These are the things I think about when I’m trying to get out of doing something.
As usual, the easiest answer is the best. Do it now, so I don’t have to do it later. Done.
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