{"id":1674,"date":"2020-01-15T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2020-01-10T21:07:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T04:07:25","slug":"streaks-forming-the-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1674","title":{"rendered":"Streaks: Forming the Habit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I wrote back on January 5, 2020<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now S<\/a>eth Godin<\/a>, who has blogged continuously for 20 years(!), has written about another aspect of a streak. Here’s some of what he said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fear of falling behind is a good way to enforce compliance.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it turns out that real progress comes not from measuring ourselves against everyone else\u2019s pace, but in building habits. And habits come from streaks.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019re almost certainly never going to win a 26-mile marathon, but if you train every day, you\u2019ll finish one. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drip by drip, day by day. Habits lead to commitments and commitments create learning.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A culture of streaks can\u2019t help but be mutually supportive. If there\u2019s no behind, then there\u2019s no ahead. But if we\u2019re supporting each other in building new habits, we discover that opening the door for someone else also benefits us as well. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>, daily time with God<\/a>, or some other contribution or discipline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And he said to all, \u201cIf anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. (Luke 9.23, ESV) <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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) <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading Streaks: Forming the Habit<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-r0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1675,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions\/1675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}