Everyone sometimes struggles with consistency. Do you want to develop a good habit but often fail after a few days? Well, you are not alone.
To help myself with that (and possibly you), I come up with the idea of making a public commitment and finding accountability partners.
Public commitment
This post is my public commitment to writing and publishing articles daily for the next 365 days. It's well over any magic number you hear that is necessary to form a habit. For my liking, it's fair enough.
Accountability partners
To hold myself accountable (and to make you more interested in helping me stay consistent), I declare that I'll pay $1000 to one of my accountability partners (by whom I mean anyone who comments on this post on dev.to) if I miss a day in publishing articles in the next year.
The rules
- One article a day published, no excuses.
- No article published - a script chooses a random person from the comments section to transfer money to their bank account.
- The way of choosing a random person may change with time - I want to make it automated and public, to provide transparency and fairness (and to prove I'm taking it seriously!). Feel free to propose your ideas on how to approach this problem.
Join me in the challenge
I encourage all of you who want to develop a good habit of putting yourself out there to join the challenge.
Of course, your numbers may be different. Maybe your goal is to publish just one article a week. Maybe $1000 is too much or too little to make you feel uncomfortable.
Choose your perfect numbers and join me in the challenge! If you struggle with this, DM me on Twitter, and I'll do my best to help you come up with numbers that will work for you.
And please, let me know what you think about this idea. Feedback highly appreciated!
Oldest comments (81)
Ok. sounds good!
I'm gonna get that $1000!
Thanks for the support haha :)
So does that mean I get it if you forget to post b/c I commented first?
or is it random?
Random
Dang it!
That's quite a goal! Do you have a blogging roadmap for article topics and queueing posts?
Not yet, maybe it's a good topic for tomorrow's article though! Thanks for bringing this up.
Thats an ambitious goal, just dont get sick. All the best !
Thanks!
I don't need the money but good luck! (I thought I was doing well for posting at least once a week for over 52 weeks 😅)
When holidays come around make sure you've written up a backlog of articles that you can just click
Publishand enjoy the rest of the day without stressing about losing $1000!Thanks for the support and tips!
Yeah, I'm planning to build a buffer of at least 7 articles in advance so I can take a break from writing for a couple of days if needed.
BTW article a week for 52 weeks is a great result, congrats!
Props if you can make it! Already interestet to see the blog posts 👍
Wow, that's a big challenge and stress maybe. Don't forget to set daily reminders to not forget them. I've tried to So if we want to earn these $1000, let's comment a lot to increase probability haha...
Good luck !
Thanks! Yeah, I plan to create a buffer of a few posts in advance and try to automate publishing them here, otherwise, it would be way too easy to fail.
Sounds great!!!