No more zero days

How to stop breaking promises to yourself

You’ve had those days

The ones where you wake up with intentions and go to bed having done nothing

Where you scroll until your eyes hurt, where hours disappear into nothing, where you tell yourself tomorrow will be different

And tomorrow comes and it’s the same thing

You know what you want. You know what you should be doing. But somehow there’s this massive gap between knowing and doing

And that gap? it’s killing you slowly

Every zero day is another broken promise to yourself

Another reason to believe you’re not the kind of person who follows through

I don’t know you. But I know what it’s like to feel stuck.

What I’m about to share actually worked for me. You can take it or leave it. You don’t owe me anything. But if even one piece of this lights something in you, use it.

That’s all I’m asking.

1/ No more zero days

A zero day is when you do absolutely nothing toward whatever it is you want

Nothing toward your goal, your dream, your project, your health, whatever matters to you

No more of those

This doesn’t mean you need to grind for eight hours every day

It means you need to do something

It’s 11:58 pm and you did nothing all day? write one sentence. Do one pushup. Read one page.

One is not zero

That’s the whole point

When you’re stuck in the spiral of feeling like garbage, your behavior keeps the spiral going

You don’t break out of that spiral by suddenly becoming a productivity machine

You break out with a long string of non-zero days

Small. Consistent. Non-zero.

That’s how patterns change.

That's rule number one. Do not forget.

2/ There are 3 versions of you

Past you. Present you. Future you.

Sounds like self-help nonsense until you actually use it

Here’s how it works:

Be grateful to past you for the good decisions, even the small ones

Went for a walk yesterday instead of sitting on the couch? thank you, past me

Saved a little money last month? thank you, past me

Had a non-zero day even when it was hard? thank you, past me

That gratitude matters more than you think

Now flip it around

Do favors for future you like you’d do for your best friend

Tired as hell and don’t want to get up? this one’s for future me

Don’t feel like finishing that thing you started? this one’s for future me

Present you will always want comfort

But future you needs present you to show up anyway

and when future you becomes present you and life is a little better because of those choices?

You thank past you

That cycle... gratitude backward, favors forward... it builds something

it builds a relationship with yourself where you actually start trusting yourself again

3/ Forgive yourself

FORGIVE YOURSELF.

I mean it.

Maybe you got all the know-how, money, ability, strength and talent to do whatever is you wanna do.

But lets say you still didn't do it.

Now you’re beating yourself up for not doing what you need to, to be who you want to.

Heads up champion, being disappointed in yourself causes you to be less productive.

Tried your best to have a nonzero day yesterday and it failed? so what. I forgive you previous self. I forgive you.

But today? Today is a nonzero masterpiece to the best of my ability for future self.

Yesterday is done. Today is for future you.

4/ Exercise and books

Exercise makes you smarter. It clears your mind. It gives you energy. It’s doing a massive favor for future you every single time.

Books are the shortcut nobody uses

Almost everything you’re struggling with, someone else has already figured out

They wrote it down

It’s sitting there waiting for you

Reading is how you skip levels

That’s it

Four rules:

• no more zero days

• gratitude to past you, favors for future you

• forgive yourself

• exercise and books

You don’t need a complex system

You don’t need an app or a framework or a dashboard

You need to do one thing today that isn’t zero

And then do it again tomorrow

Anyway, here’s my Spotify focus playlist

Go have fun 🍀

-Abi