The spite notebook is honestly the best way to start anything. That thing where the payoff shows up weeks after the hype promised it is so real though. I had the same thing with walking every morning, first two weeks it was just boring and cold, then one day I noticed I was actually thinking through stuff I'd been avoiding for months. The slow ones are the ones that stick, I swear.

Pastor turns into a dinosaur? That's just Tuesday at my church.

The stairwell thing hits home because I've done the same during a blackout, and what got me through was having the whole deck on my phone too, not just the laptop. That way when the screen dies you're not stuck, you just keep talking and nobody on the call even knows you switched. The real trick is rehearsing the short version out loud so you can do it from memory if you have to. Battery anxiety is its own beast though, so now I check for outlets before I even order my coffee. It turns a disaster into just another Tuesday.