{"id":601,"date":"2018-03-12T22:29:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T22:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rowanspazzoli.com\/wp\/?p=601"},"modified":"2018-03-12T22:29:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T22:29:09","slug":"broken-streaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rowanspazzoli.com\/wp\/broken-streaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken streaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past week I&#8217;ve broken all 3 of my big streaks. I&#8217;ve been too tired to do Yoga, particularly as I was leaving home at 7 and getting back at midnight all of last week.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I had meditated the one morning so didn&#8217;t do so in the evening. And my streak of 71 days ended as a result.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday I wrote up a bunch of blog posts to automatically post because I knew work would be too hectic. I thought I&#8217;d written one for Saturday but turns out I hadn&#8217;t. And on Sunday morning I woke up with two messages asking what had gone wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is that I&#8217;ve been too overwhelmed to properly put effort into these activities. I&#8217;ve tried to find ways to mitigate this but at some point I wasn&#8217;t able to.<\/p>\n<p>I broke the streaks<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Getting back on the train<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Initially I was quite angry at myself for this. I&#8217;d put so much effort into maintaining them and it felt like I had lost all that hard work.<\/p>\n<p>But I haven&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I still have 121 blog posts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ve still meditated 71 times this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And I&#8217;m trying to build a new habit around an exercise I find really difficult.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So I meditated an extra time on Friday. I wrote an extra blog post on Sunday. And I&#8217;m going to do an extended exercise session when I&#8217;m feeling less sick. The momentum hasn&#8217;t stopped. In fact, in spite of the chaos I&#8217;ve managed to keep my habits going. The momentum has pushed me on.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still on track, and my <a href=\"https:\/\/rowanspazzoli.com\/wp\/building-strong-personal-institutions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">personal institutions<\/a> have helped keep me there.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m proud of myself for doing this.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Image was taken in 2013 while I was on a run in Newlands Forest. I had stumbled across this run down shed which, oddly enough, I&#8217;ve never been able to find again.<\/em><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Song of the day<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D7ab595h0AU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Battle Symphony - Linkin Park<\/a> (actually, the whole One More Light Album)<\/pre>\n<pre><strong>Blog 121\/365<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/rowanspazzoli.com\/wp\/grind-time-prime-time\/\">Read more about my #365of25 journey here<\/a><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack_subscription_widget\"><h2 class=\"widgettitle\">Subscribe to Blog via Email<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-subscriptions__container\">\n\t\t\t<form action=\"#\" method=\"post\" accept-charset=\"utf-8\" id=\"subscribe-blog-1\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-blog=\"131483896\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-post_access_level=\"everybody\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"subscribe-text\"><p>Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p id=\"subscribe-email\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<label id=\"jetpack-subscribe-label\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"screen-reader-text\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfor=\"subscribe-field-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEmail Address\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"email\" name=\"email\" autocomplete=\"email\" required=\"required\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvalue=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tid=\"subscribe-field-1\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tplaceholder=\"Email Address\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<p id=\"subscribe-submit\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"action\" value=\"subscribe\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"source\" value=\"https:\/\/rowanspazzoli.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"sub-type\" value=\"widget\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_fragment\" value=\"subscribe-blog-1\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"_wpnonce\" name=\"_wpnonce\" value=\"7fdbb23db7\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wp_http_referer\" value=\"\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<button type=\"submit\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"wp-block-button__link\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tstyle=\"margin: 0; margin-left: 0px;\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tname=\"jetpack_subscriptions_widget\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/form>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past week I&#8217;ve broken all 3 of my big streaks. 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