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Hey.
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Well done for completing yet another module.
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This is really exciting.
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You're getting really into the course now.
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Now I want to share with you one of my ways for building a good habit.
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Because if we think about it learning to code, it requires daily, almost constant effort, right?
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Ideally if you could spend 100 days and you spent one hour a day learning to code or coding something
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of your own, then you're going to become so much better than if you just, you know, did it one weekend and then forgot
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about it,
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right?
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So the difference between these two scenarios is if you're able to build a habit, and once we have a
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habit, you almost don't have to think about it anymore,
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right?
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You don't think about in the morning like do I want to brush my teeth or not.
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I don't know.
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Is it one of those days where I brush or not? You don't think about that because it's a habit.
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You just wake up, and you just do it.
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So how can you make coding, or learning to code, a habit?
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One of the things that really helps me is to mark a line in my calendar, and I think this
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is actually something that came from Jerry Seinfeld, like the comedian dude, where he said that every
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day he writes a new joke, he puts a line through, you know, his calendar, and, by continuing that line, at some point
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you're not going to want to break the chain, because it's like, “Man, I've done like a 10 day streak.
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How hard is it just to do one more day?”
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And I don't know if it's because I'm kind of OCD like I just like seeing things like completed.
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I sometimes just write to do's in my to do list that I've already done which I haven't written in my
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list but just to be able to tick it off.
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Yeah yeah let me know if you can relate.
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But if you even if you can't.
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Most people actually benefit from continuing a streak and by about 30 days or 40 days that thing that
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you have to constantly think about, like, “Do I have time today to code?
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Do I want to do it?” That kind of just becomes a habit and you just know, “Oh, this is the time where I get
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sat down and I start coding.” And it doesn't actually take that much motivation anymore. So try and give
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this a go and see if that helps you.
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But the most important thing is to just keep going.
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I keep saying it but at the end of the day if you show up if you do the work then you're gonna get the
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results.
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So I'm here cheering for you.
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I'm sure other people are.
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I think you're doing great and you're going to do even better.