Yesterday I forgot to do my daily coding.
Since New Year’s, I’ve been practicing my daily writing and daily coding sessions and it’s been going great.
Yesterday was the first day where I didn’t code but that’s okay because I can catch up today. And honestly, if I had to choose between coding and writing I would rather have written and not coded than opposite. This blog means more to me and writing is more my “one thing” than coding is.
I mean, I love it too, don’t get me wrong but building this blog is an overarching goal this year and it is a goal that I am ready to invest in when it comes to hitting it. While the skills are to be built in parallel, coding is me just studying the basics – I’m not yet building anything useful for myself, although that is something I’d like to incorporate, sooner rather than later, into this learning journey.
This isn’t my first time to be doing this – in fact, I think the first time I started was two years ago. However, I am a lot more adamant on hitting it now because I have the weight of a wasted decade on my shoulders and this is the only pressure valve that gets me “off the hook”.
Not to mention that I got serious about changing my life and doing whatever it takes to make it happen. That’s how I made all the necessary changes in my life to stabilize it – whether it be losing weight, getting certified or making a jump to becoming gainfully employed at a W2 job in the tech field.
Either way, another one of my goals this year is to be focused but flexible too.
I’ve recently realized that while my aim is to get the best of both worlds – impatient with the actions while being fully patient with the results; I’ve been doing the exact opposite.
I have been patient with taking action (as in, not taking it at all and saying that you can do it later on) while also being impatient with the results (wanting it now).
Well, no more of that.
I’m fucking taking action like there’s no tomorrow and readily trusting the process and letting it happen whenever it wants to. I’m honoring the law of gestation.
Like Russ says:
“I was right about what, I was wrong about when”
I too want to focus on being right about the what and let the when happen whenever it damn well pleases.
And in line with the focus and this view of things, I also want to be more flexible this year. Let things happen when they will – you don’t have to control everything. You can’t, even if you wanted to.
So just learn to let go and do your own thing in life. Learn to trust the process. Learn to let it go and get back on top of things the moment you can.
Because life is not always about doing what you want, it’s about doing what you can.
And if you can spare only 5 minutes then do 5 minutes. And if you can’t, then don’t, and just do it the next chance you get.
That version of “doing it tomorrow” is far superior to the “someday” version of “do it tomorrow”.
It is a move not made out of laziness but one made out of logistics.
And so, today I will spend twice the time it takes for a regular coding session.
But I’d gladly do it. Because it’s fun and it’s what I want to do and it’s a sacrifice that was worth it when I had to choose between coding and writing.
I am honoring my coding session today because I had to sacrifice it yesterday. It was a move made out of honor, not convenience.
And what do you know, today is next week and I vowed that I would post twice a week so this is the post that’s going up online today.
Maybe it’s a similar deadline/standard that I have to enforce in order to get keep my coding on the right track too.
Either way, one thing is for sure – if I had/have to choose again, I would choose writing. Because priorities don’t lie – they reveal.
And since New Year’s, I’ve been aligning them quite nicely.