Today is the beginning of a new system I am implementing for myself. This system is designed to do three things:

1. Create a reading habit
2. Create a writing habit
3. Publish every Thursday

Last week, March 4, 2021, I decided that I’d publish something every Thursday. My first article was written in an hour. This is not bragging. If you read it, thank you, because it was more free writing and not thought out. It was written with just feeling. No concern about punctuation or grammar or whatever. Is it great? No idea, and I didn’t care. I had just made a commitment and damn it, I wasn’t going to fail on Article 1, Day 1!

However, I ran into a problem when thinking of Article 2. What the hell am I supposed to write about? The advice I hear/read/watch/whatever is to write about what you like, what you enjoy, what you are good at, what you are passionate about, what gets you moving, etc.

For me, nothing jumped to top of mind.

So I decided I’m going to write about what I’m currently doing. And what I’m doing is something I like to call, “Going Back to Basics” mixed with “Breaking the Cycle.” (Mental Note: Wow, this is good stuff. These are going to be the titles of future articles. Good find, James. Yes, I’m affirming myself.)

In a nutshell, back to basics is just relearning how to read, write, and making sure I exercise. These few things are helping me break out of my current cycle of negativity.

This new system is strengthening my going back to basics by writing weekly about a book that I am currently reading.

I’ll be reading a chapter a day (start easy, right?), taking notes, and putting some thought into my take away from each chapter. I’ll publish my thoughts every Thursday until the end of the book or the end of time, whichever comes first. To start, I’ve chosen Thinking, Fast & Slow by Daniel Kanehman, which I started to read in 2016, so the end of time might come sooner.

All kidding aside, my goal is to finish this book and be able to publish every Thursday. Whether I continue this system with a second book will be decided when I accomplish my first goal. Who knows, maybe it’ll evolve to something else. Maybe it’ll be even more interesting than “book reviews.” Wow, it’s so dull. God, help me.