State of the Blog: Week 13: Habits and Adjustments
My weekly state of the blog "addresses" have been the one thing I have kept up with regularly for my blog posts.
The current state is, sadly, dismal. My posts for the month of October have been short, often from my phone before bed, and sparse. Not including today, I have written and published a new post for only six of the twelve days this month. Today's post puts me over the 50% mark.
But that is not such bad news. I have been keeping up to some degree. And as I have mentioned before, this is still a fairly new habit I am implementing. Slips are reasonable (expected even), especially given the rigor of the new semester at work. That and juggling my newer role of an essentially single parent of twins was more difficult than I anticipated.
Plus, my ersatz wife is now not even keeping up with her minimal share of financial support for the boys' day care and medical insurance premium. Not even sure what to make of that.
But all this is useful information I will use to make adjustments to my daily habits, including fitting writing into my life as a daily practice. This is similar in ways to how I help my students to better plan and manage time as they learn how to manage the more rigorous work load of college life. I have really learned a lot from them as well. Teaching something to someone else is a great way to really learn something well for yourself.
So I will keep moving forward.
I have missed too many blogs the past few weeks to make up older ones, even with place holders, as I have done in the past. That would also just be a waste of time. And time is a precious commodity for me. I can do a better job of planning and using mine. But self time is also important. My weeks are so super packed and busy, that I have nothing left on the day and a half I don't have my boys with me. I have not gotten much done on those days. I need a better balance of self time and getting stuff done, so I feel rested and also get more things done during the weekend to better prepare for the week. It has like an avalanche effect.
So I will look closely at the adjustment I will have to make that will better allow me to achieve my goals.
I can and will do this. NaNoWriMo is fast approaching.
The current state is, sadly, dismal. My posts for the month of October have been short, often from my phone before bed, and sparse. Not including today, I have written and published a new post for only six of the twelve days this month. Today's post puts me over the 50% mark.
But that is not such bad news. I have been keeping up to some degree. And as I have mentioned before, this is still a fairly new habit I am implementing. Slips are reasonable (expected even), especially given the rigor of the new semester at work. That and juggling my newer role of an essentially single parent of twins was more difficult than I anticipated.
Plus, my ersatz wife is now not even keeping up with her minimal share of financial support for the boys' day care and medical insurance premium. Not even sure what to make of that.
But all this is useful information I will use to make adjustments to my daily habits, including fitting writing into my life as a daily practice. This is similar in ways to how I help my students to better plan and manage time as they learn how to manage the more rigorous work load of college life. I have really learned a lot from them as well. Teaching something to someone else is a great way to really learn something well for yourself.
So I will keep moving forward.
I have missed too many blogs the past few weeks to make up older ones, even with place holders, as I have done in the past. That would also just be a waste of time. And time is a precious commodity for me. I can do a better job of planning and using mine. But self time is also important. My weeks are so super packed and busy, that I have nothing left on the day and a half I don't have my boys with me. I have not gotten much done on those days. I need a better balance of self time and getting stuff done, so I feel rested and also get more things done during the weekend to better prepare for the week. It has like an avalanche effect.
So I will look closely at the adjustment I will have to make that will better allow me to achieve my goals.
I can and will do this. NaNoWriMo is fast approaching.
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