While, after reading this, I understand why you did this, I can only hope you NEVER miss another day of writing. OR plan b: come up with another almost as distasteful penalty that will improve our planet while motivating you enough to get where you want to go.

Some ideas:

find a friend with a horse. Muck out their stables. Or a friend with a pig.

No. Not bad enough.

Take a part time job clearing clogged public toilets, with a 2x penalty, i.e. 2 hours for every hour not writing.

Okay. I’m getting close. But I think you get the idea. Your personal journey is not enhanced by betraying every value you hold dear in order to motivate yourself or provide some sort of aversion therapy for self-improvement.

I intended to write a light hearted response to a successful click bait headline. But the more I wrote the harder that got. Seriously. Don’t ever deliberately put yourself in this sort of lose-lose position. Just don’t.

Or tell me you were just kidding.