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We all know what procrastination is so I'll speed through real quick:

1. It might not actually be laziness, you might be worried to much about it or if you work a physically intensive job it could simply be that your tired. Find the underlying reason and treat it basically.
2. Sometimes there's just no solution like going fuck it and just starting it with no plan. I know this won't work for some people but my very long droughts were stopped by me just starting it and letting what happens, happens.

What I really wanna talk about is the holding yourself accountable part:

It's very easy to just not do that and it's also very easy to over do it. The most important thing here is not only consistency but also the realization that you aren't going to be consistent.

Some day, something will break your streak.

Maybe someone in your family dies whether they be human or pet, friends schedule a get together during your writing time, you're moving or something else. Life happens, missing days should be allowed in your mind. It's when it's in your control and you're not chosing between it or something important is when missing days is bad.

This is tough to actually put into practice though, in fact I've actually been procrastinating. Moving my parents and their stuff to an apartment broke my initial momentum, and my mind immediately defaulted to, 'Fuck I broke it, I should continue again but it's already broken... why don't we do something else?'.

This is when it becomes easy to sell your time for the most mediocre shit ever. When the self doubts and the easy sources of dopamine hit hard. When you have to adult yourself back to your habit by thinking something similar to, 'I know it's broken, but having this reaction and not doing it when I want achieve something in this is ridiculous and more time consuming than my actual missed day.'

Either that or you think about it so much daily that you go, 'Fuck it, we're doing it now.' like I did to get this post out lol. Just remember to go easy on yourself and that a missed day or two is part of the plan and not the ruin of it.

I'm choosing to stay here for the long term whether or not people join in with my discussions. (Though I love it, if you do.) So if I don't make a post in a while, don't worry I check this instance near daily.

But that aside, I've been meaning to make a Google doc or just a document in general of all the advice I heard and incorporated as an accessible way to share with other people. Writing well is difficult and there's no need to add searching multiple sites for good advice on-top of that.

Here's the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EOeUwpUoklG4zqzp5VCHrT8TYWPHtf0PV2KCjK6JqY4/edit?usp=drivesdk

(If anyone doesn't want to use Google doc can you suggest an alternative and I'll copy it over to that.)