Don’t let a bad day knock you off the track

Something interesting I’ve discovered while taking on daily challenges is this: about once every six weeks, I really don’t want to do the work. 

Today is one of those days. About six weeks ago, I had one of these days too. I procrastinated on blogging, I put it off all day, then, when I had the least amount of energy and focus, right before falling asleep, I forced myself to do it. 

It’ll come as no surprise to you that the blog wasn’t amazing that day. It was serviceable. Utilitarian. It got the job done.  

Here’s what’s interesting to me. If once every six weeks I lose motivation, and I end up creating something bad, that’s the kind of thing that could have knocked me off the track of consistency. But when you run the numbers, that’s only about nine days out of every year when I really don’t want to do the work, and I make something I’m not totally proud of. Only nine! That’s less than 2.5% of the year. 

For further context, if an artist you like released ten albums, with ten songs each, over the course of 20 years, and there were only two songs out of one hundred that they didn’t totally love, that would be really good!

Don’t let a bad day knock you off the track of consistency. These only come around once every so often. Take them with the good days, and keep things moving!