Halfway — that's logged

Fifteen days in.

Fifteen to go.

Thank you for the honest number. Whatever it was, it’s more use to me than a tidy one — and if you told me something’s getting in the way, I’ll read it today and reply myself.

 

Nothing else is asked of you until day thirty.

30

for

30

People

Days

Halfway. Both halves count exactly the same.

Where you are

Fifteen behind you, fifteen ahead

The second half is worth exactly as much as the first, and it starts tomorrow rather than in January.

Two kinds of halfway

Whichever one you're in, it's fine

By now the cohort has split into two groups. Both of them are useful to me and neither of them is behind.

If it's flying

Change nothing at all

You’ve found something that fits. Resist the urge to make it bigger or more impressive — the thing that survives a hard November is the version that was never heroic in the first place.

Go and post what’s working. Someone reading the group tonight is three days from giving up on precisely the problem you’ve already solved.

If it isn't

You haven't failed at anything

Fifteen days with an honest four in them is still four days you wouldn’t otherwise have had. There’s no streak here to have broken and nothing has reset to zero.

The fix is almost never starting again. It’s making the hour smaller until it fits the life you’ve actually got.

 

Shrink it before you scrap it.

Sixty minutes is the shape of a good day, not a condition of entry. On a bad week, the hour bends.

Partial credit is real credit. The research is unusually consistent on this: the step from nothing to something is worth far more than the step from something to a great deal.

5

Journal

three lines, no more

10

Read

while the kettle boils

10

Walk

round the block

25

Still counts. Every time.

a bad-week hour