⛓️ TREE 718: A chain of accomplishment

New year thing 1: My free time is my responsibility. I will not delegate it to the internet.

New year thing 2: I get to do this life once. I want to do it all the way.

New year thing 3: Wanting isn’t enough.

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I have three things I’m focussing on this year.

1. Physical health

2. Learning BSL

3. My Bonanza Clementine writing project

My status in December:

I ran three times a week, but that’s not enough when you are as ancient as me. The rest of my body needs work too.

At Level 1 BSL, you can skate through with attending all the classes and a little practice before the exams. At Level 2, things start serious and get seriouser. I was still doing Level 1 amounts of work.

Bonanza Clementine is a big project, but big chunks of writing time don’t often appear in my life.

I was set up for failure. I didn’t want to fail, so here’s what I did.

I chose three easy goals. Every day I will spend at least 10 minutes exercising, 10 minutes practicing BSL and 10 minutes writing Bonanza Clementine.

10 minutes, because I can always find three 10 minute chunks in a day.

Every day, because:

1. These are things I want to do, they rarely feel like work when I’m doing them.

2. Momentum.

3. I brush my teeth everyday, even on rest days. I don’t see why personal growth and physical health should be less important than oral health.

4. Everything I do over 10 minutes feels super awesome.

The system I chose for achieving the goals is Jerry Seinfeld’s Don’t Break the Chain. All it requires is a calendar and a pen. I’ve known about this system for years but never used it. This year what I want to accomplish fits perfectly with Jerry’s system.

I took this photo before I did my daily BSL practice.

For me those marks on my calendar are a super strong motivation.

So there’s one practical method for going slowly and getting more done than you thought you could.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor!

Grow slowly
Jeff