Habits
An entire month and a half passed by without blogging. That is an entire month and a half that is not spent on habit building. Fortunately, there is a reedy thanks to James Clear’s Atomic Habits. Blogging can indeed be built into a habit. Like any habit, all it needs is the loop that comprises of cue, craving, response, and reward. As blogging is a good habit, I can make the cue obvious, the craving attractive, the response easy, and the reward satisfying. I can make the cue easy: I can have my keyboard and screen ready every day. I can create an attractive craving by reading and maintaining a journal as a reservoir to tap from for my blog. I can make the response easy by tapping into that reservoir of journals whenever I am ready to write. I can make the reward satisfying by creating a trail of days in which I blogged. I can create a calendar in which I can cross off each day that I blogged. I can also take the extra mile to email authors whose works...