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 I touch upon when I blog.

I did get a few responses from such authors that acted as a boost in my early days.

Key takeaway: blogging is a habit that can only be built through blogging!