Slight adjustment to the blog today. A couple of things were starting to bug me, so I did a little course correction this morning.

The moon phase posting schedule is really fun, but I need to adjust it a bit. There have been a couple of times I was excited to post, and it was in between the quarters. So what do I do then? Should I wait to post on the quarter? That is too much thinking for me. I should post when there is something to post.

So I added a moon phase selector to blog posts. That way, I can note when in the moon cycle the post was posted at least. That also means there I can use the full range of moon phases. I'll be losing the "moon as post trigger," but I think later on it might be fun to see if there are any trends with the phases and my posts.

The second thing this will do is remove some visual clutter in the post titles. I was including the moon phases in the post title. It was cool for a while. As more and more posts had them, the titles were starting to get more difficult to look at, I think. So back to the normal titles and then add the moon phase emoji is fine.

I've folded in tidying up my reminders and events in to my morning writing. It's turning out to be a thing that I look forward to which rules while the brain is halfway awake. Basically I've been adding why and how to tasks as a writing exercise.

With each task I have, I am supposed to be including what the outcome will look like and the next action(s). I can through about five to seven of them done within the 200 word goal. It is extra work for task creation for sure.

As I slowly get through them all, each task is becoming like a mini-story. It reads like...

• Do this
• Because you need things to be like this
• So do this first

I don't know why but reading the first two lines build up momentum. Then when I get to the third one, I have some speed built up and seem to do the thing more then when I don't include the "why" and "how". It's like every time my brain wants to act like a misbehaving child, the retort is in the next line.

Reminders: "Do this task"

Brain: "Why the eff should I?"

Reminders: "Because this is what success will look like."

Brain: "I don't know how."

Reminders: "Do this first."