Irons in the Fire

Sometimes I take on a few too many things at once. I think it has something to do with both the major case of FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) that I’ve had for most of my life and my desire to always learn and do new things. Even during this last year when most of us have been staying home most of the time, I find myself starting about seventeen home projects at once, getting overwhelmed, and then not getting any of them finished. It’s a whole thing, but I’m working on it. And part of that work includes shifting some priorities.

I’ve been on my writing streak (writing for at least 15 minutes every day) for 82 days now–almost three months, and this will be the twelfth blog post I’ve published since I started the streak. I honestly don’t know how it’s going. My blog posts seem disjointed and/or rambling sometimes, and I don’t know if I’m making any progress in improving my writing. I think I’m still struggling to figure out what direction I want to take the blog, which makes it hard to focus in posts. I’m writing a lot, but it feels scattered and then large chunks get edited out of posts and stuck in a Google Doc to go back to later–I might end up with a book in there one of these days.

Anyway, before this post gets away from me too, I guess what I’m trying to say is that I don’t have the focus, nor do I want to spend the time right now, to write a blog post about anything really meaningful. I don’t have anything particularly profound to say, and there are a lot of other things that I’m working on too. So, I’m going to step back this week and publish a post about how I’m not going to publish a good post. Then I’m going to spend some quality time with my Passion Planner, my Paper Mate Flair felt tip pens, and some Ben & Jerry’s so I can plan out my week and start crossing things off my to-do list. And then, hopefully, I’ll have the mental bandwidth (wow, does that phrase make me cringe, but there really isn’t a better way to describe it) to get some focus back and write better things in the future. My writing every day will continue, of course–it does help me process things–and I want to keep up my streak of posting every week too. But this is a week that I need to focus on other things, and that’s okay. So now I’m hitting “Publish”, because that ice cream is calling my name…