Thank you for sharing this. It really resonated with me. Actually, even more so, another post by Herman that they linked to in this one: Why I started journaling.

I have always wanted to write more, but have always felt some strange and unnecessary pressure to write in a public format. I do wish to do that too, but I’m always held back by lack of time, anxiety, bouts of depression, lack of ideas, etc…

But personal journaling doesn’t have the same pressures. It only needs one to overcome that “lack of time”. I re-read Atomic Habits last week, and one topic he discusses is the two-minute rule. There’s more to that than I can do justice to in this quick reply, but one point he makes is restricting yourself to two-minutes as a maximum while you try to form new habits. I am going to give that a shot.

At the end of each day, I intend to spend exactly two minutes quickly journaling about my day. I feel like I can always find two minutes to commit to such a task, and whilst I surely can’t catch much of my day in that time, it will enable me to really get something written each day and solidify the habit. Hopefully I can expand that as time goes on, and eventually pluck up the courage (and ideas) to start writing something more public.

That was a bit of a tangent, but this was a thought-provoking post - thanks again for sharing it.