It is way easier to do something 100% of the time than < 100% of the time.

I first came across this concept in the book How will you measure your life by Clayton Christensen where he puts it like this:

It’s easier to hold to your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold to them 98 percent of the time.

The reasoning is that if you slip up only once, it’s way easier to slip up again because you already slipped up.

You can check out a few of my other favorite quotes from that book.

This is why I write these “daily thought” posts.

It is way easier to do something 100% of the time than < 100% of the time. #consistency https://t.co/pQXj94vkHe

— Nikola Brežnjak (@HitmanHR) January 4, 2022

In this new “Daily Thoughts” series, I’m just scratching my own itch. For too long now I’ve been reading and consuming. Not that there’s something inherently wrong with that, but if one doesn’t offset that with his own producing, one often falls into the trap of staying a consumer.

If you think you know something, or want to learn something about yourself, try to explain it ‘on paper’. Personally, I think best ‘on paper’, and it’s been a while since a wrote a post (or a series, or let alone a book). So, I’ll start small (and build up a habit of daily writing again) by sharing a thought daily. I’ll use this as a retrospective a year from now, and edit the posts by adding additional content. With enough years of editing, these should grow into proper-sized posts.

Dear readers, feel free to chime in with your thoughts on my thoughts (so Meta; which is popular in its own right these days).

P.S. Yes, I know; my drawings are amazing 🙂