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Pro-active with pep and stuff
Okay.
So, looking back at all the whingeing I've been doing since Christmas, I figure it's time to, at least temporarily, stop beating myself up about everything I'm not accomplishing, and to shift my focus a bit. I have lost contact with the Rocking Thing, my alter ego, and so I have to go looking for her again.
So, this weekend after band practice, I am officially going AWOL. You will not hear from me at all either on Saturday or on Sunday.
What I'm going to do instead on those days is as follows:
1- I will do a little bit of cleaning. I will NOT be spending two entire days cleaning, because the prospect of an entire weekend of scrubbing will just dishearten me, and I won't do it. So, I will do a little bit of cleaning.
2- I will write. I will write a lot. In fact, I will write as much as my little creative heart desires. I will work on both my serials, and whatever else I feel like working on. I will NOT give myself writing goals: not word counts or numbers of chapters or numbers of instalments to accomplish. Instead, I shall simply write for the sheer enjoyment of it.
3- I will go to bed early on both days. I will sleep in on Sunday morning. I am tired now, and there will be little opportunity to get to bed early this week. So, early bedtime over the weekend.
4- I will take a walk on Sunday. I will go out and get some fresh air and exercise, and I will stay out as little or as long as I like.
There you go.
Mens sana in corpore sano.
So, looking back at all the whingeing I've been doing since Christmas, I figure it's time to, at least temporarily, stop beating myself up about everything I'm not accomplishing, and to shift my focus a bit. I have lost contact with the Rocking Thing, my alter ego, and so I have to go looking for her again.
So, this weekend after band practice, I am officially going AWOL. You will not hear from me at all either on Saturday or on Sunday.
What I'm going to do instead on those days is as follows:
1- I will do a little bit of cleaning. I will NOT be spending two entire days cleaning, because the prospect of an entire weekend of scrubbing will just dishearten me, and I won't do it. So, I will do a little bit of cleaning.
2- I will write. I will write a lot. In fact, I will write as much as my little creative heart desires. I will work on both my serials, and whatever else I feel like working on. I will NOT give myself writing goals: not word counts or numbers of chapters or numbers of instalments to accomplish. Instead, I shall simply write for the sheer enjoyment of it.
3- I will go to bed early on both days. I will sleep in on Sunday morning. I am tired now, and there will be little opportunity to get to bed early this week. So, early bedtime over the weekend.
4- I will take a walk on Sunday. I will go out and get some fresh air and exercise, and I will stay out as little or as long as I like.
There you go.
Mens sana in corpore sano.
FYI
One trick was to order pizza and then see how much cleaning I could get done before it arrived. I wouldn't get the whole house clean or anything, but I would feel I'd made a solid 30-45 minutes progress by the time it arrived, and I would reward myself with Pizza for having actual done some cleaning (which I really hate).
Doing that or similar things 2 or 3 times a week really helped me get on top of it.