I wrote back on January 5, 2020, the day I completed one year of publishing a blog every day, that there was something important about a streak. I quoted baseball’s iron man, Cal Ripken, about the importance of a streak, just the daily discipline.

Now Seth Godin, who has blogged continuously for 20 years(!), has written about another aspect of a streak. Here’s some of what he said:

Fear of falling behind is a good way to enforce compliance.

But it turns out that real progress comes not from measuring ourselves against everyone else’s pace, but in building habits. And habits come from streaks.

You’re almost certainly never going to win a 26-mile marathon, but if you train every day, you’ll finish one.

Drip by drip, day by day. Habits lead to commitments and commitments create learning.

A culture of streaks can’t help but be mutually supportive. If there’s no behind, then there’s no ahead. But if we’re supporting each other in building new habits, we discover that opening the door for someone else also benefits us as well.

Writing this daily blog has been transformative for me. I pray that it may not only be encouraging and instructive for you, but that it will also inspire you to start your own streak…of holy moments, daily time with God, or some other contribution or discipline.

And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. (Luke 9.23, ESV)

Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors. For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the LORD. Proverbs 8.34, 35, ESV)