Blog­ging needs to be habitual to be effec­tive. Inac­tive = inan­i­mate. The lack of progress is death. But habits are dif­fi­cult to form. They must be born in some kind of desire. This is why bad habits are so easily adopted. They’re nat­ural. They may impart imme­diate ben­e­fits at the expense of dis­tant detri­ment. In order to develop good habits – or simply refrain from the bad ones – takes an effort. Force of will. This is a thing I do not have in great supply. I am afraid that, all too often, my bad habits to not break until the detri­ment has crossed the dis­tance and become a con­cern. The good habits do not develop until need is more imme­diate than laziness.

Blog­ging is a form of artic­u­la­tion. To artic­u­late, a spe­cific kind of mental orga­ni­za­tion must take place. Mental energy con­denses into clouds of thought and pre­cip­i­tates as words. The words then evap­o­rate back into the mental energy. But there is a change in the mental energy as it cycles through artic­u­la­tion. When thought is artic­u­lated, it is detached from the mind and becomes (in the format of a blog) a sep­a­rate entity, able to affect the mind that cre­ated it.

Change is incre­mental. The incre­ments are infin­i­tes­imal. Habits must be devel­oped to effect change.