Motivation on the Run

Three weeks ago yesterday, I made public one of my goals for the new year. The goal was to post more content on the blogs, which required more writing. One action item was to write for 1 hour each day, Monday through Friday, and this goal is becoming hard to achieve. Yesterday I did not write for the hour and will have to make it up tonight and tomorrow, but I have a good excuse. Really, I do. After all, it’s all about the excuse … right?

I had an appointment with my eye doctor, because of an injury, and part of the followup appointment was to dilate my eyes. The appointment was late afternoon and my vision did not return to “normal” until about 9 PM. Blurry, fuzzy, and out of focus best describes my vision most of last evening.

Other than that, I am still on track with this part of the goal, but may be falling behind on the number of posts stated in the goal. The goal is to post one major and two to three minor posts each week, and this is proving to be the most difficult part. This means I have to average more than one post (1.2 posts) written each day to meet the minimum level.

You would think that five hours each week would be plenty of time to generate that level of production, but that is proving to be untrue. All of my writing, so far, is for the blogs, but other items I want to write have not made the list yet.

The other part of the equation is the difficulty in finishing and editing posts in a timely manner. Right this minute I have five articles in various stages of completion just on Motivation on the Run. They range from a few paragraphs on different thoughts, to finished articles that still need editing. Editing takes more time than writing, but none-the-less, must be done.

I have said before, that goals must be adjustable because they must fit into your life, but I am not backing off yet, although it is harder than I originally thought. The writing part is fun, but getting them ready for hitting the publish button is hard work.

Now I know why authors have professional editors … they just have to write and prepare the story and the editor takes care of cleaning up the text. Build intrigue and interest and let someone else clean it up for print. Editor, editor, where forth art thou editor?