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You Can Do Anything for a Year
Especially if you give yourself this cheat code
A year seems like a long time.
An eternity, really.
But in my experience, it passes in the blink of an eye.
Year after year, I just manage to finally look up, and the old is already fading into the new.
How can this be!? I think. Does each year go by faster than the last?
It feels like I’m stuck in some video game world where time is rigged against me. Days suddenly become weeks, and weeks become months.
Everything’s happening in fast-forward mode, and I can’t seem to slow it down—or even get it to play at normal speed.
I want to do something for me.
So, if time’s just going to keep whizzing by the older I get, I want to make sure I’m spending it how I want.
That’s why this year, I’ve committed to writing something every day.
That’s right—365 days of writing.
It sounds like a lot. As in, too much. A huge commitment. A way to set myself up for failure.
And honestly, in the past, it has been! I’ve thought of doing this exact thing many times before and I’ve never succeeded at it.