As I’m thinking about what I want to do with this blog - I have a large and long project in mind. Here’s my idea.
A Year Of Growth
“Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.” ― W. H. Auden
I really like James Clear - this is an extension of the stuff he talks about in his article, Achieve Your Goals: The Scientific Argument for Mastering One Thing at a Time.
I want to take a year and change a habit / grow every day.
Since there are 365 days in a year, this can be very gradual. This is a marathon, remember?
There are 12 months in a year, so I want to develop 12 pillars of habits that can be edited.
These can include:
- Health
- Fitness
- Family
- Spouse
- Morning Routine
- Spirituality
- Reading
- Producing
- Meditation
- Waking Up Earlier
- Evening Routines
- Sleeping
- etc.
I’ll add more and cut some from this list, but you get the point.
Then, each month is focussed on editing one of those pillars gradually.
There are roughly 4 weeks in a month, so I will take 4 gradual steps to editing that habit.
For example, if the habit is ‘Waking Up Earlier’, the weeks in the month could look like this:
- Begin Waking Up at 7 AM
- Wake Up at 6:30 AM
- Wake Up at 6 AM
- Wake up at 5:30 AM
The start and end times could be anything - depending on the person. They can also be more coarse or gradual depending on how successful they are at making the habit stick (Maybe 4 or 5 days instead of a week).
The object of the pillars, is to have them stick, and you continue to do the previous pillars while editing new pillars.
There is a snag, though, some pillars cannot be done very easily before others. For instance, staying on the ‘Waking Up Early’ habit - It’s nearly impossible to be successful at getting up early if you don’t have an evening routine / good sleep habit.
So, before we can wake up early, we have to sleep well, and that would come first in the program.
And before we can have a morning routine, we have to be waking up early.
And before we can make time for meditation, spirituality, journaling, exercising, etc., we need a morning routine.
So most of this all hinges on sleeping well. The thing we do for more than a third of our lives.
So that’s what this is all about. I am going to make a plan, stick to it and write about it’s affectiveness.
A year from now, if I am successfully doing all of the things mentioned above, I don’t think there is anything that could stop me.