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.
We rush to get to summer, to get all the things off our plate so we can enjoy it. And then we rush to finish summer to get all our things to start what can be considered a new year. Either way, we’re rushing.
When you start building code, insurmountable amounts of code that you had not planned on writing at the onset, to work with the platform. It’s time to move on. You tried, the fit isn’t there, move on.