{"id":3546,"date":"2022-01-03T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2021-12-06T08:12:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T13:12:02","slug":"the-power-of-streaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2022\/01\/the-power-of-streaks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Streaks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>There is something to the concept of momentum where a body in motion continues in motion. That even works with mental activity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Momentum works. Even with the mind. That doesn&#8217;t make sense, but in my experience it seems to be true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>For over 700 weeks (13+ years) I have viewed the Internet and kept notes<\/li><li>Write two blog posts a week (12+ years)<\/li><li>Read ten pages a night (30 minutes) in technical texts<\/li><li>Write one short story every week<\/li><li>Write 30 minutes every day<\/li><li>Jot daily activities in a Steno Pad (30+ years on this one)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The list goes on. There are other lists for other persons. The result is the same: Start a streak; keep it going, and still keep it going. One day it becomes unthinkable to stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips There is something to the concept of momentum where a body in motion continues in motion. That even works with mental activity. Momentum works. Even with the mind. That doesn&#8217;t make sense, but in my experience it seems to be true. Examples: For over 700 weeks (13+ years) I have viewed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,376,243,253,35,5],"tags":[149,377,244,254,157,128],"class_list":["post-3546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-patterns","category-reading","category-synergy","category-time","category-writing","tag-blog","tag-patterns","tag-reading","tag-synergy","tag-time","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3547,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions\/3547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}