Not a Single Day Without a Line

Seven habits are already locked in through a tracker. The eighth is writing at least one line a day. Why a tiny minimum beats a promise to write a lot.

Lately I’ve been using a habit tracker called Habitty (Loop is the Android equivalent). It’s a simple but very effective tool for hitting the necessary daily minimum in your own development.

Over the past months I’ve been locking in seven habits:

1. Water balance (drinking 2-3 litres of slightly alkaline water)
2. Spiritual growth (reading the Bible + prayer)
3. Skincare (cleanser, toner, face cream)
4. Training (about 10 minutes of stretching and exercises at home)
5. Reading (from 20 minutes to 1.5 hours a day)
6. Taking vitamins
7. Motivation (watching content that charges me with the right mood and thoughts)

And now I want to add an eighth habit — writing at least one line of text every day.

Here’s the thing: the moment I pick a moment to write just one line, any line, the next one appears immediately and my fingers obediently start tapping the keyboard. That first line turns into a few paragraphs, and those in turn add up to some meaningful text or story.

I know all too well how hard it really is to build a new habit. That’s why I’m saying one line a day. On busy days it really will be a single thought written down. And on some days I might not even manage that.

But the only things that have power in our lives are the ones we turn into a cycle and do regularly.

One day I’ll write that line in my journal, another day I’ll edit one thought for a video, another day I’ll publish a post on social media. Not every line I write will go public, but the habit of writing will gradually do its job and a lot of useful (I hope) content will appear.

I’ll try living by the principle “not a single day without a line of text” and we’ll see what comes of it…