{"id":521,"date":"2013-05-13T14:48:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T14:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/?p=521"},"modified":"2017-02-25T13:57:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T13:57:57","slug":"more-posting-moar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/2013\/05\/more-posting-moar\/","title":{"rendered":"More Posting… MOAR!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jerry Seinfeld once came up with a neat productivity secret<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Years ago when Seinfeld<\/i> was a new television show, Jerry Seinfeld was still a touring comic. At the time, I was hanging around clubs doing open mic nights and trying to learn the ropes. One night I was in the club where Seinfeld was working, and before he went on stage, I saw my chance. I had to ask Seinfeld if he had any tips for a young comic. What he told me was something that would benefit me a lifetime…<\/p>\n

He said the way to be a better comic was to create better jokes and the way to create better jokes was to write every day. But his advice was better than that. He had a gem of a leverage technique he used on himself and you can use it to motivate yourself\u2014even when you don’t feel like it.<\/p>\n

He revealed a unique calendar system he uses to pressure himself to write. Here’s how it works.<\/p>\n

He told me to get a big wall calendar that has a whole year on one page and hang it on a prominent wall. The next step was to get a big red magic marker.<\/p>\n

He said for each day that I do my task of writing, I get to put a big red X over that day. “After a few days you’ll have a chain. Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day. You’ll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Your only job next is to not break the chain.”<\/p>\n

“Don’t break the chain,” he said again for emphasis.<\/p>\n

So, I’m going to try this. Or rather, an iteration. I’m aiming low, because I know that I’m bad for this and I don’t really want spam in this blog. But I aim to update this blog once a week<\/strong>. Maybe more, but that’s my aim.<\/p>\n

I’m determined that I won’t break the chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jerry Seinfeld once came up with a neat productivity secret: Years ago when Seinfeld was a new television show, Jerry Seinfeld was still a touring comic. At the time, I was hanging around clubs doing open mic nights and trying to learn the ropes. One night I was in the club where Seinfeld was working, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-website"],"mb":[],"mfb_rest_fields":["title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scaine.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}