Productivity is a great thing. Lately, I've been wrestling with why I just can't keep up in certain areas. I really want to get my work space organized. I actually would like to have all my files in order. There's no real reason why my house should get as messy as it does or that the laundry should get so full.
A classmate of mine, and someone who's writing I really rather enjoy, has a blog that is doing really well. I have glanced at it in the past, but I realized today that I never actually sat down a read more than one or part of one at a time. So I did that tonight, and its better than I remember. (and I remember it being pretty good.)
Then I got to this post: Fitting it All in Because it Matters
A lot of what she says in this post is absolutely true. Ok, all of it. I completely understand what she is saying. I think it has a lot to do with that Calm Confidence concept she later blogs about from our thesis class. (Which I also really like.)
At any rate you should check it out, but what I realized was this:
When you like what you are doing, when you love what you are doing, there is no question about fitting it all in.
That's why last semester I took on way more than I could chew, and the daily chores went to the wayside.
I'm not blaming my passion for teaching and writing. I'm simply pointing out that I just do not like to clean and organize on a daily basis. It is so easy to let that just slip out of the schedule.
I also realized another conundrum. I keep saying I need to do those things. So I won't do other things I want to. It's suppose to be a motivator to get me to do the things I don't want to first. I need to stop this. In the end I end up settling for something mediocre and do neither. So then I'm upset that I didn't get the chore done, and I'm unfilled because I followed through and didn't let myself have fun creating.
I have to give up this mind frame and just take things as they come. Make myself clean and organize and run to the post office etc. so that when the feeling moves me to do something fun and creative- I don't have to feel guilty about it.
Something about this semester, this year, feels different. You'd think I'd be completely wrung dry after my proceeding 4 months, but to the contrary I'm full of optimism and motivation. I think this program is going to end on a high not. It is good to see that there are others around me that feel the same.
It's never wrong to be happy.
A classmate of mine, and someone who's writing I really rather enjoy, has a blog that is doing really well. I have glanced at it in the past, but I realized today that I never actually sat down a read more than one or part of one at a time. So I did that tonight, and its better than I remember. (and I remember it being pretty good.)
Then I got to this post: Fitting it All in Because it Matters
A lot of what she says in this post is absolutely true. Ok, all of it. I completely understand what she is saying. I think it has a lot to do with that Calm Confidence concept she later blogs about from our thesis class. (Which I also really like.)
At any rate you should check it out, but what I realized was this:
When you like what you are doing, when you love what you are doing, there is no question about fitting it all in.
That's why last semester I took on way more than I could chew, and the daily chores went to the wayside.
I'm not blaming my passion for teaching and writing. I'm simply pointing out that I just do not like to clean and organize on a daily basis. It is so easy to let that just slip out of the schedule.
I also realized another conundrum. I keep saying I need to do those things. So I won't do other things I want to. It's suppose to be a motivator to get me to do the things I don't want to first. I need to stop this. In the end I end up settling for something mediocre and do neither. So then I'm upset that I didn't get the chore done, and I'm unfilled because I followed through and didn't let myself have fun creating.
I have to give up this mind frame and just take things as they come. Make myself clean and organize and run to the post office etc. so that when the feeling moves me to do something fun and creative- I don't have to feel guilty about it.
Something about this semester, this year, feels different. You'd think I'd be completely wrung dry after my proceeding 4 months, but to the contrary I'm full of optimism and motivation. I think this program is going to end on a high not. It is good to see that there are others around me that feel the same.
It's never wrong to be happy.
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