This week was abysmal. My content performed the worst it has since I’ve been tracking it.
I was pretty deflated about it on Wednesday. Enough so that it paralyzed me as I sat down to write Thursday’s FZ Daily.
That’s why I broke the chain yesterday.
And then right on cue, I read the bit in James Clear Atomic Habits this morning about habit tracking.
2 things in particular resonated. To paraphrase:
1. Track the work, not the results
2. If you skip one day, don’t skip two.
In other words, I put in the work to write the content. That’s all I can control. I can’t control how it performs, so being affected by the results is a waste of energy.
Secondly, as James puts it, missing a habit once is inevitable. Life is busy. Stuff happens.
That doesn’t matter as much as what you do the next day.
It’s okay if you whiff one day. Just don’t whiff on two.
So here you go. If this week is any indication, 3 people will read this who I don’t call “Mom.” (whomp whomp)
But that doesn’t matter. What matters is that I showed up and did the work and it was only a one-day, not a two-day absence.
