This blog post is really similar to "Step 11: Get Super Busy," except that I actually had excuses for not writing during that break. Granted, I had some really awesome things go on the past couple weeks (check out the next few blogs to hear about them), but there were several times that I thought "I should write a blog post" or "I should work on my story." Instead, I watched old cartoons I used to watch when I was kid.
Sometimes I get in funks like that, and if it happens towards the end of the month it can be really bad. Get your minds out of the gutters! It has nothing to do with me being a girl! It does, however, have everything to do with... well, not sure what you would call this: I have to start things at the beginning.
It started out just with movies, tv shows, and books. I had to watch/read things in order. Heck, I couldn't even watch the original Star Wars movies until the three prequels came out so that I could see it all from beginning to end (chronologically speaking).
Then it went to homework - if I couldn't figure out the answer to question 1, there was no way I was moving on to question 2.
And now it's hit my entire life. If I wake up and am having a bad day, I really really really want to just go back to bed and wake up the next day and have a good morning that will lead to a good rest of the day. Sometimes it gets as bad as me waiting until the beginning of the next week to "hit the ground running," as my mom and I like to say. And in some worst case scenarios, I just throw away the last two weeks of a month, goof off, and tell myself that come the first of the next month I'll be productive and get stuff done just the way that I want to.
This method is all fine and dandy (as you can see, it's the beginning of the month and I'm back on the writing bandwagon), but I wasted a lot of time. So I'm going to try not to do that anymore. First off, I'm going to try not to fall of the bandwagon in the first place, but if I do, I'm going to try to hop right back on.
So my question to you: What do you do to get yourself back on the bandwagon?
And my challenge to you: If you are having a bad day (whether it's only that slight bad that's more annoying than sad or it's a truly awful day), try looking at the next day as a new, better day. You'll give yourself the rest of your bad day to sulk around, but then you'll have a fresh, productive start the next day.
Getting back on the bandwagon is NEVER easy but I've found the longer I procrastinate the harder it is. When I do fall off, I'll try to set a limit for how long I'll indulge myself FOR THAT DAY. For example, I'll tell myself "go ahead and continue goofing off for a little longer but try to do at least one thing productive before the day is over. I think you do that too but you don't give yourself credit for these things when you don't accomplish them in your planned order or time frame. A little OCD maybe!?! ;-)
ReplyDeleteOCD would probably be a good explanation. :P
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