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Consistency

September 2, 2017 by admin

The key to getting the work done – and the work done well – is consistency.

Showing up every day.

Or every other day.

But at what point does the “not quite every day” begin to erode to where it is no longer doing what it is supposed to.

I am trying to blog every day. I am failing. I blog a few days in a row, miss a day, or even miss two days. What’s lost when I miss a day?

It might be less impactful when I miss a day of blogging because I generally am writing something else those other days – whether my fiction in progress or something creative for work.

But it partly doesn’t matter because blogging is not necessarily deep work.

Writing a novel is deep work that requires immersion. You get into the flow the story, your own writing, the characters. Spend too much time away and you need to reacquaint yourself with all of that. The work is broken and greater effort is spent trying to get back into it than in it.

The same thing happens with Brazilian jiu jitsu. Miss too many days of training and the return is painful – cardio is crap, hesitation abound, technique gets sloppy or foggy.

But life happens. Other things rise (like the kid’s tennis) and priorities shift.

The challenge is how to meet those shifts without losing consistency or a practice entirely.

Still trying to figure that out.

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About the Author

Peter Fugazzotto is a fantasy and science fiction author who fights to protect the earth by day and battles his ego with armbars and slashing sticks by night. He lives in Northern California with his wife, daughter, bird and dog. His short stories have been published in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Grimdark … READ MORE

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