I am on holidays. They started last Friday and give me 10 straight days with no work distraction to undertake all those tasks I have been “gunna” do. It gives me 10 days to implement some of the ideas from the blogging conference. To focus on posts for the blog (maybe even get some written in advance to help with the 6.00am panic which overtakes me most mornings when I sit looking at the screen wondering what the hell can I write about?).
So far I’ve had lunch with a friend, played cards with my mother and daughters, done countless loads of washing, watched encore episodes of MasterChef (I don’t even particularly like MasterChef) and studiously avoided the computer.
It is clear daily posting is what I need to keep me motivated. As soon as I let one day slip, as soon as I allow the children to take over the computer, as soon as I don’t get up early to capture that blissfully quiet time when nobody else is awake I begin to falter.
Then I find myself writing a post about not writing posts just so I can get something up and get my groove back.
Should I actually regain my focus and start to implement some of the ideas swimming around in my head you are going to be sorry – you will be hit with a barrage of “having a go” pieces and podcasts where I practise on you the poor, suffering subscribers who managed to survive the transfer to a self-hosted site.
There is also the grand plan of finally beginning that exercise plan I have been talking about for seven months. I’m serious this time, the clothes decorating the unused treadmill have been removed and I’m in the process of finding an extension cord so I can plug in, no really it’s going to happen. Not least because it will create another 700 words for the blog on my near-death experience of trying to coax a stiff, aged body into something of which it has no memory – activity.
So buckle up, the week ahead could be a rocky one podcasts, posts that actually have some thought behind them (not written on the run before the early morning rush hour) and god help me exercise.
Ditto But the great feeling once you’ve posted! I have an elliptical cross trainer staring at me waiting, wanting to be useful.
It is a great feeling once you have posted and an even better one when people comment! Good luck with the cross trainer.
I can relate to the treadmill watching you. Ours has moved from the lounge, into the back spare room, now it sits outside under our large pergola. I am past the years of running now too (right knee doesn’t cope well with the jarring) so I usually try to ride my bike instead. Except that I haven’t, for a long time.
So now the bike is watching me instead. Oops!
Hope you’re enjoying vacation!! And good luck with that treadmill!
Enjoy your break. I’m thinking about getting back on the treadmill to start C25k for the third time this year. I wish us both luck and good exercising.
25k that’s serious,good luck.