7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 6 Yesterday was rough. I hit the wall. Six out of seven habits, no creative work, no Substack, in bed early. It happens. But two days like that don't get to happen in a row. This weekend is Memorial Day. My goal is to enjoy myself. Eat some good … Continue reading No Guilt in the Ice Cream
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The Good Hydra
7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 2 I just finished Josh Kaufman's How to Fight a Hydra. It's a short fable about facing an ambitious, terrifying challenge — the kind where you cut off one head and two more grow in its place. The hero enters the arena not knowing if he'll survive, gets staggered, … Continue reading The Good Hydra
Three Days Out
7-40 Challenge | Planning Week, Day 8 Round 4 starts Monday. I’ve spent the last ten days doing something I don’t do well: stopping. Not stopping completely — I’ve still been writing, walking, going to the gym, keeping the habits that needed keeping. But I pulled back from the pace that carried me through three … Continue reading Three Days Out
What Twenty Minutes Will Tell You
7-40 Challenge | Planning Week It’s 80 degrees. I’m in jeans and a black shirt, walking downtown in full sunlight with a balding head, talking into my phone passing a bus stop at 12:45 in the afternoon. I’ve got about 14 things on my to-do list and I’m trying to unload my brain before it … Continue reading What Twenty Minutes Will Tell You
I’m Tired, and That’s Allowed
I’m thirty-five days into the third round of a year-long challenge that has me running seven habits every day. Across the year I’ve kept a near-daily exercise practice, published two books with a third in proof, built and grown a daily Bible illustration project that’s reached a real audience, started writing songs again, held a … Continue reading I’m Tired, and That’s Allowed
