What Will I Replace?

Things I’ve learned from blogging 500 days in a row . . .

I posted a question on social media the other day, "At roughly 90 seconds per day on here . . . I'm spent. How do y'all do it?” One friend immediately replied, “60 seconds per day.”

Obvious yet brilliant. Sometimes the difference between health and unhealth is 30 seconds.

I’ve learned in the last 500 days of blogging that the inverse is true, too: sometimes the difference between unhealth and health, surviving and thriving, merely existing and doing your one necessary thing is but a few seconds.

Maybe its five minutes in the morning or ten minutes before lunch. Perhaps it’s an hour at night in the basement after everyone is in bed.

All of our time is accounted for. Every minute of every day.
And "making time” is a meaningless phrase. We all have only 24 hours.

The question is not “How will I fit it in?” The question is “What will I replace to fit that one thing without which everything else is deficient?” There’s more to lose when I’m honest with myself.

For me, writing replaced something else.
What’s your thing? And what will it replace?