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Jerry Seinfeld is attributed with this interesting productivity method called, ‘don’t break the chain.’

His idea behind it is simple: to be a good comic, you need better jokes. To get better jokes, you need to write better. To write better, you need to write every day.

So to make sure he wrote, every day, he hung a large calendar on the wall, and after every time he wrote, he drew a red cross on the day’s date. If he wrote the next day, he drew a cross on that date, and did the same for the day after and the day after that.

When he had written for consecutive days, there would be a chain of red crosses on the calendar. If he stopped for one day, he would break the chain, and have to start all over again.

The challenge was to make the chain as long as possible.

The outcome was he made a lot of material. Some of which must have been good, if not excellent.

So don’t break the chain.