I dropped the ball on these daily essays for a long while.

Other things came up. Which really means it hadn’t become an ingrained enough habit yet, and so other things were able to supersede.

The writing wasn’t the only thing to suffer—I slipped out of my nutrition and exercise routines too.

A few cool observations:

1. What’s done is done. No need to beat myself up about it—that’d be so counterproductive. I can start over from today.
   1. Do I regret it? No—it was a necessary part of my journey. It’s happened. Why fight reality? Smile, breathe, decide next steps :)
2. The way to get back in when it seems too difficult is to lower the bar. I’ve talked about this before, but I need constant reminding of it. I don’t need to write good essays. That’s not the goal at this stage. The goal is to just sit and write. I can do those two things—and if I can’t, I just need to get very curious about why not. They’re fundamentally easy things—so what’s getting in the way?