Even the mightiest oak grew from a small acorn.
It is strange to think that back in 2010–2015, when what felt like a handful of people were keeping blogs on Livejournal, it never once crossed my mind to start one of my own. Not the thought, and — more importantly — not the need to express myself. Imagine I had written just one article a month: I would now have 180–250 articles from those 15–20 years. That is an enormous amount, isn’t it?! And what a stretch of time — 20 years! Several lifetimes over..
I am currently reading “Atomic Habits” by J. Clear, where the author writes:
In November 2012, I began publishing articles on jamesclear.com. For years I had been taking notes on my habit experiments, and I finally felt ready to share some of the results publicly. I started by publishing a new article every Monday and Thursday. Within a few months this simple habit led to my first thousand subscribers, and by the end of 2013 there were more than thirty thousand of them.
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Now, in 2018, …, the site gets millions of visitors a month, and my weekly newsletter has more than 500 thousand subscribers
In other words: if you move not chaotically and without a system, but gradually, step by step, consistently — you can reach outstanding results that seemed unimaginable at the start, like this author’s 500 thousand subscribers.
And since “it’s never too late to start” (c), I decided to make consistent journalling/blogging/whatever my first habit. For now I am still thinking about how to track progress on habits, so that they can be followed and the results shared.