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Writing Again
Jul. 29th, 2022 01:16 pmStrange to look back at this blog and find a post from 2020 that neatly mirrors the one I was planning to write today. Evidently my grand plans for that year were derailed, and here I am two-and-a-half years later picking up the pieces again.
This time, I'm a week into actually sticking to my plans. I have picked up Couch-to-80K again from the beginning, to gentle myself back into a regular habit. This time around, though, I'm realising that to be a long-term thing, it's got to be more than just doing what Tim Clare tells me for ten minutes a day and patting myself on the back with no further thought, so I'm paying more attention to the suggestions he makes for a general practise, and implementing them, and extending them. Warming up each writing session with a list. Taking the time to look up things for a reading list. Actually reading the things on the list, and circling back to make notes on them when I finish.
I'm one week in - about to do the Week 2 Day 1 session. I'm going to warm up with a list before I dive in. I'm reading Wilding, by Isabella Tree, and I'm making use of the Kindle highlight function for once, to pick out passages to come back to when I make notes at the end. I've already noticed ideas cropping up for my most recent stalled project, but I'm not trying to force them into hundreds of words of output just yet.
I'm feeling in a spirit of gentle self-improvement more generally this month. I've been feeling lonely lately, so I'm trying to reach out to someone I know each week and suggest spending some time together. I'm paying more attention to where my money goes. I'm paying more attention to what I eat, too, encouraging the habits that make my body feel good and discouraging the ones that don't. I'm doing my physio. I've changed up how I keep my to-do list, taking up some of the fundamental ideas behind the original bullet journalling.
Perhaps this will all come tumbling down in six months, and I will find myself back at the foot of this hill. But if that happens, I will try to remember: every time I do this, I learn a little bit more about how to start walking into a new habit without loading myself up with guilt and self-hatred, and I get a little bit better at maintaining it.
This time, I'm a week into actually sticking to my plans. I have picked up Couch-to-80K again from the beginning, to gentle myself back into a regular habit. This time around, though, I'm realising that to be a long-term thing, it's got to be more than just doing what Tim Clare tells me for ten minutes a day and patting myself on the back with no further thought, so I'm paying more attention to the suggestions he makes for a general practise, and implementing them, and extending them. Warming up each writing session with a list. Taking the time to look up things for a reading list. Actually reading the things on the list, and circling back to make notes on them when I finish.
I'm one week in - about to do the Week 2 Day 1 session. I'm going to warm up with a list before I dive in. I'm reading Wilding, by Isabella Tree, and I'm making use of the Kindle highlight function for once, to pick out passages to come back to when I make notes at the end. I've already noticed ideas cropping up for my most recent stalled project, but I'm not trying to force them into hundreds of words of output just yet.
I'm feeling in a spirit of gentle self-improvement more generally this month. I've been feeling lonely lately, so I'm trying to reach out to someone I know each week and suggest spending some time together. I'm paying more attention to where my money goes. I'm paying more attention to what I eat, too, encouraging the habits that make my body feel good and discouraging the ones that don't. I'm doing my physio. I've changed up how I keep my to-do list, taking up some of the fundamental ideas behind the original bullet journalling.
Perhaps this will all come tumbling down in six months, and I will find myself back at the foot of this hill. But if that happens, I will try to remember: every time I do this, I learn a little bit more about how to start walking into a new habit without loading myself up with guilt and self-hatred, and I get a little bit better at maintaining it.
