2023-06-03 Journal Entry

🍃 Season: 🌷 Spring 🔆 Weekday: Saturday 🗓 Date: June 3, 2023 📅 Week: May 29 – Jun 4, 2023

The idea of a daily “protocol” is being really helpful, I think. I wrote a few paragraphs today, and I’m immensely proud of myself for that. I’m trying not to pick at them too hard, even though I also have the urge to back and rewrite all of it, but I’m mostly just proud that I got in there and wrote a thing. My daily protocol, going forward, is to write at least one sentence (of fiction/poetry, so not including these journals) every day. I think that’s going to serve me well. I’m already feeling low-key euphoric at the whole thing. And I know it’s a bit silly to feel euphoric for writing a sentence, but I sat down and did the thing that I really wanted to do but had been ho-humming about for a while. That owns.

Part of the deal of having a program and a friend in that program to keep me mildly accountable is great, it means I have to hit all of these things every day. There’s also the idea of the “virtue score,” where presumably it goes down a bunch if you don’t do everything, and the quantitative part of my brain really likes that.

I also like the way it’s leading me towards doing all of these things in the morning by making me explicitly commit to them every single day is something I quite like. It’s nice to review all of the commitments and to know why I commit to them every day. It’s a fun pattern to see how I can keep it up.

It’s taken me about two hours to do all the things on the list, and if my goals grow and morph in the way I hope they will, it’ll probably spread up to three or more as writing becomes more of a thing I start wanting to do, but that’s for a later time.

But in short, I’m feeling good. I did a thing I’ve wanted to do for a while. Now I’m going to continue on with that excitement and get out in the sun. It’s a beautiful day today. Day One, All In, Let’s Go.