Recalibrating

So, how are things going for you this new year? If you’re anything like me, you are reminding yourself of that one quote… “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

You know what I mean… “I’m going to drink 8 glasses of water every day” but then you don’t. “I’m going to eat healthier” but then you don’t. For me, it was “I’m going to set aside time to write every day” … but then I didn’t. With the new year came a new schedule and some new challenges. Hence, I must recalibrate in order to carve a path from where I am to where I want to be.

The good news is that I recognize what I am not doing. In this case, I am not making a conscious effort to schedule time for this specific activity each day. I can’t just let the day happen without actively setting aside time to get it done, else I reach the end of the day only to realize that nothing new has happened. 

To help me with this, I bought a new 2022 planner with an extra hundred blank pages of notes. Yes, I am a nerd who loves notebooks and is always afraid to “ruin” them by writing in them. But by having all these extra pages attached to my calendar, I don’t feel like I’m “ruining” a pretty notebook. Instead, I’m filling in the designated writing area within the specific time frames of the calendar. It also helps that the note pages and calendar pages are all in the same book, so (theoretically) I will never lose or forget one or the other.

Now that I have this beautiful new calendar journal, whatever shall I write in it? Aye, there’s the rub. The solution is that I will find a daily prompt (hopefully, some automatic system that emails me a daily prompt each day). I will then have to write about it, even if I don’t particularly like the prompt or can’t think of anything unique to say about it. After all, the first draft doesn’t have to be good, it just has to be written.