The hard bit isn't the first month. It's the stretch around month three or four where the novelty wears off and you start asking yourself whether you're going to keep going. I almost stopped.
What got me through it was being able to scroll back and see what I'd actually written down at the start — what the early weeks were like, what changed, what didn't. Without that I was just relying on memory, which lies. The notes don't tell me what to do.
They just give me something concrete to look at when I'm trying to decide whether to keep going. That's the whole point of writing things down.
What got me through it was being able to scroll back and see what I'd actually written down at the start — what the early weeks were like, what changed, what didn't.