Missed A Day?
August 15th, 2026
Showing up everyday for any task at all isn’t a small feat, let alone for a task that stretches over a month. From the small experience I’ve had with my August Ramblings, a major lesson I’ve learnt is that even though showing up and writing everyday is exercising my writing muscles and building trust, everyday has its own peculiar challenges. Attempting to approach every day as the same day would be a gross mistake. Today for instance, I was all over the place doing several unrelated tasks. Bringing my mind back together at the end of the day to be spontaneous with a random ramble just didn’t happen. Even while writing, I’m navigating through several distractions, and trying to get the different parts of my brain to agree together on something to write on. I started a piece, and after I wrote down the heading, everything I had just flew away. Well, at the end of the day, my brain and I agreed to journal this thought trail instead.
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Reflecting on today’s piece, I’ve observed that this disconnect from tasks isn’t peculiar to writing on Medium. The screenshot attached is from my YouVersion app where I recently lost a streak. I’ve lost a few Snapchat streaks as well in the past week. I’ve also not checked up on my friends who I’ve been consistent with. I think I’ve just been disoriented and overwhelmed by future plans, and this has disrupted the structures I had in place for consistency. My point of action would be to slow things down, plan and persist. There’s been days where I was sure I wouldn’t put any piece out, but drowning out the noise, planning and persisting has always paid.
Whenever your consistency breaks down for any reason, I don’t think you should be hard on yourself. It’s important to restart the streak, and pick it up again. See it as writing an examination with questions that you’re already privy to. That puts you in a vantage position -more experience. If possible, restore the streak and continue as if no break ever happened. Deadlines can be pushed hard, more realistic goals set, boundaries established and good work done. Afterall, moving on is the only way to move on.
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