One of the primary reasons that I’ve continued to write every day for almost a year and a half now is because of the ability to look back on the last 18 months and say, “I didn’t do ‘nothing’ a single day in those 18 months.” I may not have done much some days, but I didn’t haver a single “zero-day” as I’ve heard them called.

I feel as though because of blogging each day, it’s become so routine that if all I do in a day is blog, it almost feels as if I’ve done nothing. Looking back now, I realize how cool that is. Something that was a huge chore for me to do 2 years ago is now something that I think so little about that it almost feels like nothing.

That being said, the material in my blog has become much less valuable to most I would say over the last 6 months especially. Overall, my writing has most likely improved, but I think and care so much less about it now, so the effort that goes into it has also faded.

All that to say, it’s less of a chore for me now, but I think that’s probably half due to becoming a more efficient writer and half due to becoming lazier in my writing.

All of this is for background mainly. Yesterday, I wasted much of the day. It was a beautiful day and when I woke up in the morning I told myself I was going to spend as much of it outside as possible…I spent the morning outside and then proceeded to be inside doing pretty much nothing the rest of the day and ended it by watching a couple of movies with the fam.

I felt so terrible. Even after doing some stuff in the morning and going for a run in the evening, I felt as though I had wasted the day.

It seems what I can chalk it up to is that when you know how the productive days feel and you have a lot of them in a row, it’s much harder to turn around and have an unproductive day because you feel how much better it feels to be productive.

The ability to waste time will always be there, but if you can train yourself well enough, you can train yourself to avoid that time. Unfortunately, I’m still learning how to do that, but it is my hope that I continue to learn and get better at it.