Низомийномидаги Тошкентдавлат педагогика университети

How I stayed committed. Before writing the first post my first step was to announce to one of my Whatsapp groups that I wanted to start this project. People in the group have no authority over me and I don’t believe actually read my posts. Still, my announcement put me in the position to live up to what I said. That was exactly what I wanted.

For the first four months I just wrote whenever I could. Sometimes three times a week, sometimes once in three weeks.

After that time I started sending my posts out in a weekly email. The weekly email forced me to have something to send out each week. It was an artificial deadline that focused my energy. The weekly email created an expectation to live up to. A streak that I didn’t want to break.

Still, I am sure that I would have given up except for something a friend said to me early in the project. I mentioned that I was going to stop writing — that it just wasn’t a good use of time and that I had started in a direction that required too much effort. My friend simply said “the people who win are the ones who keep going when everyone else gives up.”