'So how do you find the time to write?' 'I....don't actually know.' If you've followed this account recently, you may know that this question has made me look hard at my schedule - and I didn't really like what I saw. Sure, everything got done, but it was frantic and without being fully aware of it, the 'get it done, come what may' mentality suckered me into an exhausted loop, week in, week out making trade-offs at the expense of writing or exercise far too often.
Life is busy. There's family stuff, and work stuff, and school stuff, and poetry stuff, and book stuff, and social stuff, and life stuff, and stuff stuff so if something didn't give - then a few adjustments were needed.
I worked out (pun!) that I hated exercising in the early mornings, lunch times or evenings (...one could conclude that this just means I hated exercise) but it was only because there was too much friction built into those times and the trade-offs were easy to make. I don't love going to the gym but I didn't mind going an hour before the busy lunchtime crowd, and have lunch at my desk as usual. Oddly, I didn't mind waking up early to make a long brew and set to the important task of make-believe, so I'm toying with writing in the mornings before work.
I have a new goal now - hang getting it all done, I'm paying myself in time for the things that make me better at everything else.
Track your trade-offs, they may surprise you.
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