That’s what I asked myself as I started cringing from what felt like the early symptoms of food poisoning. “Maybe it’s okay to take today off,” I pushed further.
But I was still conscious. And I still had ideas. I also made a promise to myself to publish daily for at least 30 days.
Even if I couldn’t use my hands, I might have asked someone to help write on my behalf as I dictated my idea and crafted it into a complete piece. (Thankfully I still have my hands).
$1,000 wasn’t really on the line, but even the hypothetical possibility of losing it was painful enough to leverage loss aversion into motivation and follow through for writing. $1,000 wasn’t on the line today, but it may be in the future when other endeavors and work depended on a foundation of discipline and follow through and commitment that was built today with publishing one more piece.
Today I realized this can be true. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
