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jon_chaisson) wrote2022-09-29 03:18 pm
jon_chaisson) wrote2022-09-29 03:18 pm
Days Off
So of course today is the first of two days off from the Day Job and what am I doing? All The House Cleaning! Heh. Well, it needed to be done as we hadn't vacuumed since before the trip and we had a lot of laundry to do as well. And then there was the shower which, yeah, still needs a secondary scrub but still looks a LOT better than it did previously. Going to relax a bit now before starting in on some revision work.
October is coming up and of course I'm going to kick off another monthly whiteboard refresh! Was just thinking about this earlier today...I'm always wanting to start off a new month with a fresh fresh start to get my creative avenues up and running: the journaling, the blogging, fiction and poetry work, and so on. There's also the fact that Inktober is starting.
When the new month comes around I'm often saying "okay, let's get back to our schedule here", fill out the whiteboard calendar, and do what I can to keep to it. I don't always make it to the other end of the month, but I've realized that I no longer focus on that particular issue as a failure. The whole point is that it's a refresh and not a doomed attempt at perfection. Seeing it in that way has lifted a lot of the self-induced stress of keeping to a schedule so that it's all about getting up and trying again.
October is coming up and of course I'm going to kick off another monthly whiteboard refresh! Was just thinking about this earlier today...I'm always wanting to start off a new month with a fresh fresh start to get my creative avenues up and running: the journaling, the blogging, fiction and poetry work, and so on. There's also the fact that Inktober is starting.
When the new month comes around I'm often saying "okay, let's get back to our schedule here", fill out the whiteboard calendar, and do what I can to keep to it. I don't always make it to the other end of the month, but I've realized that I no longer focus on that particular issue as a failure. The whole point is that it's a refresh and not a doomed attempt at perfection. Seeing it in that way has lifted a lot of the self-induced stress of keeping to a schedule so that it's all about getting up and trying again.