I love my blog. So why would I avoid it? Well mostly because my brain and my body have not been cooperating with my desire to be productive, so instead of writing more fluff posts, I decided not to write anything at all. I recently read somewhere that Perfectionism is the biggest enemy of Productivity. How true is that! So what, if I can’t write a post that I am totally and completely satisfied with, then I am not going to write at all? Can I still call myself a writer if I am not writing? Am I the first and only person to write in less than ideal circumstances?  Am I the first person with a chronic illness to write? Uh, no.

Sometimes I just need a kick in the butt! Well I am giving myself a kick in the butt. No more avoidance, no more procrastination. I am giving myself a writing assignment to write a post a day for 30 days – 30 in 30. I need the structure and I need the challenge. I love writing. I want to write. I need to stop getting in my own way and just do it. I have a tendency for self-sabotage (now there is a great post topic), but I think if I approach this as an assignment I will be successful. I have notebooks, and notepads, and scratch papers full of ideas and topics to write on. Time to sit down, review them, and pick a subject for tomorrow.

Besides procrastination, (and feeling lousy because of Fibromyalgia and the concussion) the thing I have struggled most with lately is creating a routine and sticking with it. My ideal schedule would look something like this:

Monday

9am-1pm  Write

2pm-4pm  Read/Research

4pm-5pm  Answer emails, etc.

Tuesday

9am-10am  Yoga

11am-2pm  Write

2pm-4pm  Read/Research

4pm-5pm  Answer emails, etc.

Wednesday – Repeat Monday

Thursday – Repeat Tuesday

Friday 

9am-11am  Write

noon-2pm  Lunch with sis

2pm-4pm  Errands & Appointments

4pm  Answer emails, etc.

Now that is ideal, and doesn’t allow for any out of the ordinary circumstances, but like my goal of 3 posts a week, I don’t think I have ever come close to that schedule. I no longer want to be a writer who only writes occasionally because she has Fibromyalgia. I want to be a writer who just happens to have Fibromyalgia. And for my writing not related to this blog, I simply want to be a prolific writer, and that is what I am going to be!

So I am counting today as day one. One down, 29 to go. And when this assignment is over, and I have strengthened my writing muscles and given them the endurance they have been lacking, I am going to take on a new assignment. Perfectionism & Procrastination be gone! Productivity is my new thing!

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