If I glance over to the right side of my slightly redesigned blog (see item 16 below), I see that we have finished with 10% of 2011. Yikes. And double yikes, considering how I spent this last week.
Here's what I did with my time.
Done for the Week: Jan. 31-Feb. 6
- Continued off-season race training, fighting a sinus infection and an intestinal bug; biked once; ran once
- Succeeded in getting husband to gym with me once
- Finished The Winds of Change: A Guided Journey with Healing Music through Grief, Loss & Transformation
, by Marcia Breitenbach
- Continued providing minimal volunteer support to transitioning nonprofit
- Worked my two part-time jobs
- Published 5 blog posts
- Wrote 2 Gratitude Journal entries
- Wrote 1 Morning Page
- Meditated 2 times
- Spent time processing last week's training experience (See my post, Back from the Jungle)
- Attended first meeting of committee to hire new organizer
- Watched our two favorite basketball teams play 4 games, with son and husband
- Took a snow day; played outside with my son, my daughter, my grandson, and a Plott Hound
- Took a sick day; rested, read, and spent (too much?) time on the computer
- Attended one yoga class
- Spent a significant amount of time tweaking my blog layout, and making network connections
- Watched possibly excessive number of episodes of Becker
on YouTube
- Attended professional basketball game with my husband and two sons
- Celebrated 18th birthday with my son's friend--my "third son"
- Stayed inside long enough to wash my warmest winter coat
- Helped shovel our driveway after major winter storm
- Spent one abbreviated session on "novelling"
- Walked my daughter's Plott Hound once; took my Lab/Greyhound to the dog park
- Watched my second Super Bowl ever--nice bonding experience with my household's three males
My focus goal for last week was "to get back to working on my novel." I anticipated that the weather would take a bite or two out of my scheduled writing time. And yet I wrote that "no matter what, I commit to two writing sessions of two hours each." Ahem. See item 20 above, highlighted in green. Glass half full, I'm going to say. This week should be a bit more hospitable to writing, if I can get my head back into it.
The most important thing I did last week, somewhat counterintuitively, was to give in to my irresistible urge to slack, as in "that which a slacker does." One snow day, one sick day, (both in red above) and several days down in the valley of lethargy, and I am starting to feel like moving again. Of course, I am not generally the sort of person who comes to a grinding halt; even sick, and even blue, I normally still attempt the minimal required activity. But from time to time, like this past week, I experience an uncharacteristic inner rebellion. I have observed, in the past, that this usually follows a period of business, especially in the service of others' requests, needs and demands. I am thinking it may be wise to approach the whole "hitting the wall" thing with an attitude of acceptance. It remains to be seen if I am right about this, and if I can really pull off the acceptance part of it.
The most important thing I did last week, somewhat counterintuitively, was to give in to my irresistible urge to slack, as in "that which a slacker does." One snow day, one sick day, (both in red above) and several days down in the valley of lethargy, and I am starting to feel like moving again. Of course, I am not generally the sort of person who comes to a grinding halt; even sick, and even blue, I normally still attempt the minimal required activity. But from time to time, like this past week, I experience an uncharacteristic inner rebellion. I have observed, in the past, that this usually follows a period of business, especially in the service of others' requests, needs and demands. I am thinking it may be wise to approach the whole "hitting the wall" thing with an attitude of acceptance. It remains to be seen if I am right about this, and if I can really pull off the acceptance part of it.
Given this recent work stoppage, I am going to try to ease into the coming week, and to resist getting drawn into the vortex of other people's agendas. I am congenitally bad at this, but I am making it my focus goal for the week, nonetheless. And about time.
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