Daily Disciplines

Man, I’m really starting to understand the place of daily disciplines in my life. I am actually quite a consistent person if I just tell myself there some challenge effect to it.

Today I looked at YouTube for a good while, considering the range of things I could watch. There were thumbnails of peoples lives being changed by the bullet journal method, or a pocket notebook being the most life changing thing they had done; or the bullet journal guy had just started using a minimal way to use his phone, and it was a dumb phone but not in a dumb way; or a camping experience or a taste test or a review of some sort.

These are content I like, but sometimes I just want something else out of the ordinary. Something I would never have touched in a million years, and I feel Instagram gets that part of me a little bit more.

But I digress, the point of me sharing about the YouTube and the content I watch is how I get distracted about being distracted.

I actually wanted to write, or read, or create something. Instead, I got myself distracted by watching YouTube. And I couldn’t even be properly distracted because I’d just go and get distracted about how undistracted I was.

And that’s where I am happy about the daily disciplines. There are things I need to do and finish everyday, and that’s a bit more grounding than choosing what I want to try and clear within an hour or so. I’m happy to just do this post, do my Duolingo, and maybe my Anki? Then write in the different journals I have, and call it a day.

(I still do my main work for my job of course, I’m referring to the day in general.)