Goal Chaining

Forming one new good habit is hard enough, but what if you are trying to start several new habits at once? Since I am already putting in the effort and developing this habit of blogging, I have decided to use this 100 day blogging challenge to help me achieve some other goals.

Over Christmas I enjoyed playing John D. Clair’s board game Space Base. It’s a game where you purchase more and more powerful ships to build up your point total. It’s a game with a fair amount of luck, but the strategy is to build up an engine of combos and synergies so that you can get the most points.

How to play Space Base

As I thought about some things that I have wanted to do for a long time. I came up with three that I can chain together:

Recording music

Making animations

Making Videos

If I make an animated music video, then I can do all three at once. And if blog about the process. I can use my blogging habit as the engine. My underlying goal is to create a sustainable creative practice. Hopefully this strategy can help me with that goal too.