I spent 30 minutes reading 20 pages of Chapter 3 of WCIYP 2022 this morning before work, even though that pushed my work back to finish later in the evening. Even though I’m not writing today about what I read, it still got me started on something else I could write about.

Which is that when I start writing the first thing in the morning, I’m “paying myself” first and spending my decision making energy on what’s most important to me before spending it all on my work day (when I don’t need as much of it, to be honest) and then not have any left for myself.

Other routines – like exercise – require zero thinking. It’s easy for me to exercise in the evening, but anything requiring this amount of thinking really needs to be in the morning or I don’t think it will happen. When I’ve done nothing in the morning and waited the whole day to start in the evening after work, I just waste time sitting there staring at a blank screen.

But I really need to go to bed earlier because I’d prefer to wake up early and start writing before sunrise, because it’s so quiet that I enjoy the quiet and I don’t even want to play any music, since there’s no noise to block out.

Tomorrow’s Thanksgiving but I think I’ll try to keep up my writing streak and spend the holiday writing and see if I can get ahead on this blog :).