You miss a day. You miss a week. You miss some checkboxes. You can either focus on the gaps and see it as a sign that you should “stop” because why else would you have missed them? Or you can start over, one bit, one piece at a time, and build back up to where you were. No one ever said it would be easy.
We avoid the habits that help us like the plague. They take too much time to get going. They are not easy to start. Establishing the ritual is easily broken. Their commitment takes extra. So we avoid them, we push them away from the “work” that is easy to accomplish because it feels like we have still accomplished something, but it’s not the habit we want to accomplish, simply something. Don’t avoid them, figure them…
There is a direct correlation between the effort you put in and the result you will get. It might not be the result that you were hoping for or that you thought you would achieve. But it is the result that is much greater than if you had taken no effort at all.
If anything, be consistent. Show up. Have a good attitude. Give your best. Don’t falter. Support. Be there. Rinse and Repeat. No one ever gets faulted for being consistent.
I like to game, but I find the starting of games to be a roadblock. New controls, new features, new concepts, new directives – especially if it’s a “LIKE” game that you have already played before where you already knew what to do in it. The first few weeks of a New Game are critical because you have to commit to the learning, to figuring things out, to walking through what does and doesn’t work…