January 14, 2026
January 13 quietly came and went.
No balloons. No notifications. No one reminding me that anything worth noting had happened.
But it marked six years since I started posting the Question of the Day.
Every day. Or close enough to earn the right to say it honestly. About 99 percent of the time. Six years of asking a new question daily, mostly without thinking it would become anything at all.
It started out of boredom. That is the whole story. January 2020. A random post on Facebook. Then another the next day. Then I just kept going.
Not because it was important. Not because it was strategic. Just because it felt worth doing again tomorrow.
Thought of the Day
Don’t expect to tell others what they should do, when they know that you do what you shouldn’t. Musonius Rufus
This thought is not about perfection. It is about alignment.
People are always watching the gap between what we say and what we repeat. Not in a judgmental way. Just in a human way. We all do the math quietly.
Do they live this, or do they just talk about it?
Musonius Rufus is not telling us to stop sharing ideas or offering guidance. He is reminding us that credibility is earned through behavior, not commentary. Through repetition, not opinion.
I think about that often with this project.
I am not asking people to reflect without doing it myself. I am not telling anyone to slow down, think deeper, or pay attention while refusing to do the unglamorous work of showing up daily.
The streak matters not because it is impressive, but because it is lived. Missed days. Late posts. Quick questions on exhausted nights. Still choosing to continue.
That is where integrity quietly lives.
Question of the Day
What is a personal streak that you are proud of?
This is where the weight of the last six years really shows up.
When I started posting the Question of the Day in January 2020, the world had not yet shut down. There was no sense of what was coming. Then came a global pandemic. Lockdowns. Isolation. Loss. Entire routines erased overnight.
Since then, there have been wars that reshaped lives and headlines. The withdrawal from Afghanistan. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A devastating war in Israel and Gaza that continues to unfold. An insurrection at the U.S. Capitol that shook assumptions about stability. Inflation spikes. Supply chain breakdowns. AI going from curiosity to inevitability. Work, school, and daily life permanently altered.
And through all of that, somehow, I kept posting a question.
Not because it mattered on a global scale. But because it mattered to me.
The Question of the Day became a small anchor. Something human and manageable in a world that often felt loud and overwhelming. Some days the questions were deep. Some days they were ridiculous. Some days they landed. Some days they disappeared into silence.
The streak is not about discipline in a productivity sense. It is about continuity. About choosing one small thing to tend even when everything else feels unstable.
If you are curious about how this all started, the early reflection lives in What Is Your Question?. You can also wander through years of past prompts in the Question of the Day archive, which quietly tells the story better than any summary ever could.
And if this question made you pause for even a moment, that is the whole point. If you want these daily thoughts and questions delivered to your inbox, you can join the daily email right here.
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