A little while back, okay, months ago, I told a colleague I was going to set a goal to write every day. (Side note: I recently saw a tip that said to determine whether you want everyday, as one word, or every day, as two words, insert the word f***ing in between and if still makes sense, it’s two words. Works like a charm!) Anyway, about three days after I made this declaration, this person asked how my writing was going. I hadn’t written a single word. (insert monkey covering face emoji here)

I did better as a teenager, when I declared I wasn’t going to eat red meat anymore. Starting tomorrow. My friend said, “Sure, you are,” as I took a bite of her ham sandwich. I didn’t eat red meat for decades starting that very next day. Showed her.

Anyway, on Sunday I read a great post from Matt Renwick about focusing on wins rather than resolutions or goals. In the post he mentioned that he kept a habit tracker for writing: every 50 words he wrote was a considered a win. I thought, I could do that. That small tweak of putting a number to the habit has made it much more manageable. When I had a goal of writing something, anything, every effing day, I often sat with writer’s block and no motivation. But I’ve been successful for the last three days since reading that post!

Fifty words a day? I can do that. (Please ask me how it’s going next week!)