Having something to do, and not doing it (0) is infinitely worse than doing it even a little (1) every day.
If you have your own project and work 1 hour or even 10 minutes towards it each and every day, you will eventually finish it some day. If you however work only on weekends and 5-7 hours at once, I’d argue that what you are doing won’t be finished as fast. Constant, little by little progress yields results better than trying to do everything at once.
You don’t have to aim for whole hour per day, even 10 minutes a day will keep you progressing, from forgetting what’s important and ideas flowing inside your head.
Same goes for relationships: Giving little attention often for your important friends or customers is much better than once per month or year. Exercising even 10-15 minutes a day can make a bigger difference than 10 hours once per month.
On not-so-good things however, making long streaks of 0 is the way to go.
All of us have some habits we’d like to change. Maybe it’s drinking, smoking, overeating, watching TV, not exercising or whatever.
If there was a big tax on this habit, would you do it that often?
I’ve been keeping book about my expenses for a long time now, and I know that eating out, especially while drinking is easily one of my biggest expenses.
So lately I’ve been experimenting with imposing a tax on drinking. Every day I drink alcohol, I have to pay certain amount. If it happens too often, I run out of money fast. If I don’t do it that much, I “save” money anyways.
I believe it works well. And I think it could be used in other direction also. What if you had to pay $10 for every day you didn’t exercise? How about $5 every time you are late for meeting?
Maybe after a while, you would start thinking about your bad habits. Or, maybe after few months you would have taxed enough money to take a trip around the world.
Win-win.
