Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Every Freaking Day

Do you something in particular as a ritualized activity every single day of your life? Like meditate, watch Seinfeld reruns at 6pm, hold your breath at 11:11am, or go for a run? I'm not talking about something that you do a lot, or most days, or that you TRY to do every day. But something that actually gets done intentionally, something that is additional to the necessities of life.

It seems to me that this ought to be possible, and my idea is to go ahead and think about what you'd like to include in your daily routine. Then try implementing it, do or die. Think of how productive you'd be if you wrote a page of your story 7 days a week, or how fit you'd be if you did 10 sit ups every single day, or how much of Proust you'd have read if you read a page a day, on all days.

That stuff adds up. I think it'd be cool to take something that was valuable to you and to actually work on it as part of your life.

Whether this is possible or not, you'll have to let me know!

(Maybe it's possible for just over a year?)

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