Done for the Week: Still Revving Up

This week, I am dog-sitting for my daughter, and should have some time to get started on last week's focus goal, which was to figure out how to get some more satisfying writing accomplished.  I intend to get on that as soon as I recover from 8-1/4 hrs. babysitting a lively almost-three-year-old.  Here's what I got done last week, while I wasn't addressing my focus goal.  


Done List--Week of June 21-27

1. Finished Week 6 of revised 14-week Sprint Triathlon training plan--returned to tentative running, after injury; too soon, as it turns out
2. Finished Finding Nouf, by Zoe Ferraris; Lark and Termite, by Jayne Anne Phillips; 
3. Took my blood pressure daily
4. Attended Religious Leaders Caucus
5. Attended organization's Leadership Assembly
6. Participated in out-of-state visit to transitional jobs network
7. Published 5 blog posts
8. Meditated 3 times
9. Wrote notes to three friends
10. Wrote  7 Gratitude Journal entries
11. Wrote 7 Morning Pages
12. Continued cleaning campaign
13. Participated in 1-1/2 hr. yoga class
14. Went out with my husband for Happy Hour; read aloud a book we started together months ago; 
15. Registered for triathlon
16. Scheduled doctor's appointment I've been putting off

Because I didn't get to my focus goal, nothing is highlighted in green on this list.  In red above is what I consider my most important accomplishment of the week--finally registering for the triathlon I have been training for.  It feels pretty scary at this point, but I am putting together the pieces of a race-finishing performance, bit by bit.  I think it's at least as much a mental hurdle as a physical feat.  


In fact, I am awash in mental hurdles.  So this week's focus goal is to continue practicing mindfulness while beginning to clear the obstacles that have prevented me from writing what I've planned.  If I succeed, next week's list should reflect more time spent meditating, and more time spent writing.