Failing Floor-it February - 2026/02/09
If you happen to be someone who reads this page daily, you might've noticed that today's post isn't actually being posted on the day it's dated to. I don't think there's really anything else to say than I have now officially failed floor-it february; I wasn't able to get a post up everyday.
Looking at the conditions that caused this, I think the goal was not particularly realistic. While it's certainly conceptually doable to touch the guitar and write for some amount of time on any individual day, committing to any task at a daily cadence becomes less of a given. When making goals that are bound to a daily cadence, you're not committed to an average of x mins a day, you're committed to at least x mins every single day, even when that day truly doesn't have the time or space to make that happen.
On a normal day, it's already hard enough for me to hit the goal; I wake up and rush to work, where I'll stay till dinner time. I'll grab dinner with someone most nights, and this brings me easily to 8/9ish. Add a commute home, chores, and even just time to flop, and you'll hit the end of the day. Throw in the fact that I've been staying with my partner most nights, and it makes it seem impressive to do any daily habit. I've been pushing myself pretty hard to be able to keep it up, and I've seen that most days the time that I spend writing directly takes time away from my sleep or other necessary to dos. And to be honest, I've been fine with that. I knew the point of this month challenge was for it to be a sprint, not something that was supposed to be sustainable.
As much as I try to plan time to write every day, you can only account for so much. If a deer jumps in front of your car, sometimes you just gotta accept that there's not a whole lot you could've done (especially if you're constantly sleep deprived and mentally all over the place).
To be honest, I think having this failure came at a good time. I'm going to Puerto Rico over the long weekend where I won't have a guitar to touch, so I would've failed by then anyways. I also think that while yesterday's failure came about due to something a bit unexpected, I just couldn't really push through and stomach more writing time with how much sleep debt I had accrued. To be honest, I still haven't paid it off, I'm still so tired. I stayed up till 3 trying to write a long post, only to realize when re-reading it that it was especially bad.
Anyways, does this mean I'm stopping Floor-it February? No; while I failed my initial terms, I think the true failure of Floor-it February could only really come from no longer flooring it. If I were to abandon the underlying motivators behind my goals, I think I'd really have felt this is a flop. However, it's also true that it's unrealistic to maintain a true daily goal.
So I'm going to make 2 adjustments:
- Posts will no longer be written daily, just posted daily. This means I can write a few days worth of posts over the weekend/in my free time, allowing me to account for days where I don't have time to post. This way, I'm still committed to an average of 1 post a day.
- Guitar does not need to be touched daily. But, I've committed to going back to band practice at least once a week; I'll talk more about this in another post.
Anyways, to fully catch up I'm just going to end this post here so I can start writing the next. To be completely honest, I don't think I'll be posting a 1k+ word post until I find a large chunk of time to be able to pre-write some content. Sorry!
Ciao, and see you tomorrow (which is actually today!).