Sitting here, trying to keep myself on task, I’m reminded of how hard it is to self-discipline oneself. I have come to the conclusion that the only way I’m going to move myself forward is to force myself to do the hard work that goes along with getting things accomplished. To that end, I’m going to start looking at my writing and thought-provoking reading as a job task. This means setting aside allotted blocks of time each day to do these tasks. It sounds great in theory, and I’ve resolved to do this before, but up to now it really hasn’t stuck. It’s oh so easy to get sidetracked, and once that happens it’s twice as hard to get back to square one. At least that’s how it is for me. At least that’s how it is for me. I’ll get these great ideas, and get off to a roaring start, and then something will momentarily divert my attention, and hey I’ll just do this for a minute, and then something else leads from that, and what do you know, I’m wandering further and further down the road of distraction. Then I check the time, and oops, another day has slipped away. I really need to do whatever I need to do to minimize days happening like that going forward. Right now I’m taking inspiration from Sarah, who is hard at work formulating the online Hebrew class she’ll be teaching this summer. I think we can accomplish a lot by encouraging each other through this process. She says it’s possible to learn new habits. Sometimes I wonder, but I’ll take her word for it. I am formulating some immediate changes to my daily regimen that might help. First and foremost, no games during the day. This means completely staying off DiceWorld, Trivia Crack, Hanging, and whatever other mindless diversion might come my way. I have not yet determined the hours of which this moratorium will be in effect; that’s still a work in progress. Also, I need to force myself o write. I’ve wasted far too much time waiting for inspiration. Sometimes inspiration just doesn’t come, and the best one can do is just do. Even if I write crap, it’s writing, and funnily enough I can think of some times when inspiration came in the midst of writing something I thought would be crap. So writing needs to happen every day, and it will happen. As I said, this is all a work in progress, so it might take some time to get everything to fall into place. For now, though, it’s time to start developing those new habits, wherever they may lead.
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