I’m not a numbers girl.
Words hold much more allure for me.
But this one got my attention:
1000

This is my 1001st blog post.

It only took 13 years to reach this milestone. I don’t keep track, so it was a surprise when WordPress sent me a congratulatory email last week. It goes to show that if you keep plugging along day after day, month after month, year after year, the output piles up.

Five minutes can be spent working on something trivial or working on something life-changing. Most daily actions evaporate. Some accumulate.

James Clear, author of Atomic Habits

The floors I mopped yesterday, the dinner I made last night, the time I spent watching a baseball game on TV — those will evaporate.

The notes I took on Matthew 18 this morning, the prayers I prayed on the porch, the words put down in my journal — those will accumulate.

Much of what I do on a daily basis doesn’t last much longer than five minutes. (Clean floors and pot roast.) But if I can spend a moment or two, here and there, doing something significant, it adds up over time.

I’m not a numbers girl.
But this one got my attention.
305,509 words posted on this blog.
One at a time.
Accumulation.