I can now say that I’ve been writing for 30 days straight. Well, okay, I missed 2 days at Christmas, but then I made up the time writing for an hour or more on the other days. I feel committed and kinda sassy when I write like this. My writing coach says ” set the time for writing each day in your planner”. Hmmmm. This has not happened because I can find so many other things to do first, you know? Like melting candlewax out of glass candles, or watering my houseplants, or checking emails, or polishing the VitaMix. What I’ve learned so far about myself is that I can flat out find out a zillion things to instead of writing. I guess I’m lucky that my obsessive compulsive tendencies keep me honest even if I have to write at 11:00 at night. (Yes, this has happened.)
Geez. I’m looking right now at a vase of flowers the water is all dirty looking and I’m restraining myself from jumping up and putting in fresh water. “It would only take a couple of minutes” I tell myself and but now that my butt is in the chair, I promise myself not to leave the vicinity, I mean the chair, for 30 minutes. It’s torture but I’m doing it. My attention deficit syndrome kicks in here and so I will just take some deep breaths and stay. Just simply stay.
Working on my theme this year of Celebration, Creativity, and Simplicity. Let’s see, there is automatic celebration with my 60th birthday arriving in March and my son getting married in August. I’m launched the creativity part by attending a book binding class the day after my husband returned home….with him. Listen, people, it was his idea. For all of you women who do not have a Renaissance man, go out and get yourself one now. He is the best and surprises me all the time.
Anyway, we signed up for this 3 hour course and ended up with delightful, cool, unique books. Thom has now ordered the hole punch to make more little books, along with the hemp twine. It’s so easy and not even that much investment. Here’s what ours looked like. Mine is the one that is round and Thom has the huge diagonal stripes. (Okay, Jo you don’t have to analyze the reason why we chose totally different papers, although it is fun to toy with…hmmm.)
Books by Thom and Jo
So between the writing and the book making, I’m doing my creative thing. As for the simplicity thing, I’m still working on that part. Need to go through the emails and delete, delete, clear, and declutter.
I’m curious about what anyone who is reading this blog:
1)What have you done for 30 days straight and did it indeed lead to a new habit?
2) what you are doing that’s creative right now?
3) how are you making your life more simple these days?
I’m looking for a few good ideas….