Motivation on the Run

Last Thursday, I revealed one of my goals for the year and wanted to give a progress report.

The goal statement was “I am posting one major post per week on each blog and two or three minor posts, all of original material.” and one of the ways to accomplish this is to write for one hour each day, Monday through Friday. Today makes one week and I am happy to report I am still on track on the writing goal and in looking at the blogs, am on track with the posting goal.

Each evening from 6-7 PM, I go into my home office and put fingers to keyboard and for at least an hour write about something. Some evenings the time passed so fast I missed the stop time and clocked slightly more than an hour.

It has been easier than I originally thought, but I can already see where some evenings, conflicts will occur. Last night the Redhead and I expected our nephew for supper and I was told I would be a good host (guys, you know what that means). Our guest was not able to make it, but in the future, there will be other conflicts with the 6-7 PM time and I will need to think about how to work around these by making up time somewhere else.

I bounced the idea of writing in the morning from 5-6 AM, but my attention is elsewhere then, and I really don’t want to get up at 4 AM just to write in the morning. The time would suffer less conflicts, but I am not willing to use that time now. That could change and time will tell.

My rule for the time is simple … write. No email, no research (read surfing the web) or any other distraction allowed. It is the time to write and write only.

The hardest part is deciding what to write each evening, but with advice from others, I have written about what I was thinking about. Tonight I have put several posts up on Business Unusual and have worked on several others for Motivation on the Run and with the few remaining minutes, I will write this update because it is what I was thinking about.

To tell the truth, it is great to sit and think about one topic long enough to write what I am thinking on the subject. It helps me clarify my thoughts and in some cases, I realize that what I thought interesting, really wasn’t. After a sentence or two (maybe a few paragraphs) it comes to a dead halt and my brain says, “that’s all I have to say on that topic” and it becomes a saved draft, never be posted (but save for future reference).

I believe, if it was important enough to come to mind, it might be important later, even if to jog my memory or create brain storms. At times, a little thunder and lightning will be good to jog me out of complacency.