it would’ve been easy to skip a day. easier than posting what was essentially a holding-on-for-dear-life attempt to not skip a beat.

i was horizontal, in bed, 11 p.m., and totally exhausted from two photo sessions. ok realistically, it was more like three. i was out of the house before 8:30 a.m. to photograph a campaign launch and take portraits for a marathon training program. then it was off to richmond hill to meet up with nai guy and hook him up with some pro shots for his stock henry (hip hop) and bad knees studios (videography) endeavors.

by the time i got home, i felt like i had run a marathon. ok i guess since i’ve never run one i shouldn’t use that metaphor, but it felt fitting in this case.

so when i was laying in bed, after spending an hour or so looking at travel destinations for a huge trip wifey and i are planning next year, i could barely keep my eyes open. in fact, i wrote that post four times last night, and fell asleep in the middle of writing it three of those times. initially, it was four paragraphs, but somehow when i fell asleep the first time i erased most of the post. so then i rewrote it into three paragraphs and fell asleep again, re-deleting what i had wrote. after that happened two more times, and i dropped my phone on the floor the final time, i eventually settled on a single paragraph and just published it before i could screw it up again.

i guess the point is that i did it.

even if it wasn’t much, it wasn’t nothing.

i didn’t let it slip. i know there will probably be days when i want to. when i forget to post. when i don’t prioritize. and even when i don’t want to look at this blog because i am on another train of thought. but for now, i’m solvent. and it feels so good. thanks for the person who isn’t letting me slip. this discipline will pay off.

first learn to build, then build something worthy of your training.