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 |   I have posted my response to MHWA Mental Health Challenge and other items to this journal. |
| There are only three days left in December and in 2013. Soon a New Year full of potential will begin, so I have to finalize my 2014 resolutions goals before midnight December 31, 2013. I'm not sure I'm ready for 2014, but ready or not it's on its way; therefore, I need to take a deep breath, fix me something for today's first breakfast (I like the Hobbit custom of two breakfasts), and say a couple of prayer before I begin finalizing my 2014 goals. I want 2014 to be the new normal I thought I began in 2013 (see "Trapped in Insanity: A Review 2013"  ). I know I have to do things differently in the coming year because I can't go on doing the same things the same way and expecting different results. I know one thing I have to do is stop updating my Facebook status half-a-dozen times a day (see "2013 and Beyond" ) because it's a time waster and an addiction. I do want to start a Facebook page about my writing to go along with the website I'm starting in 2014 and this means I have to update that page once or twice a day; however, I'm going to start planning my status updates a little more carefully.I have to plan my writing a little more carefully in 2014. I have to start printing out hard copies of things I submit to contest and other places. I've noticed for some time that when I'm composing on the computer and don't print something out I miss words, put wrong tenses, or some other grammar problem that I could catch by just taking a little more time. Not that I have a lot of time anyway, but a few seconds or minutes checking grammar or spelling isn't going to cause much of a problem time wise. I think on solution is to use the oven timer I have on my desk a bit more often. At least, that would help with part of the time problem and I could use the oven timer to sit a time limit when I'm on my Facebook because the most I can sit the timer at is one hour. In addition, I think I waste too much time procrastinating, which may be why I spend so much time on Facebook because it's a way to use time without thinking I'm procrastinating. I have a lot ahead of me in 2014 so the only thing I can do is set my goals, make my plans, say my prayers, and work to get something accomplished before December 31, 2014 rolls around. Food for Thought: "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.” - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life |
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