I seem to be having a hard time managing myself lately. I tell myself I'm going to work on this or that and then I don't.
Since I'm self-employed I find this particularly unnerving. I have the feeling, right or wrong, that everything depends on my doing what I decide to do.
So I'm resorting to a SOLUTION that has worked before: I'm STAKING MYSELF OUT, making an irreversible public commitment: today I will spend a minimum of one hour on my novel revisions and a minimum of one hour on the project I've been putting off for a week. I know that once I get going, I'll go on longer than that on at least one of these items.
THEN: I will report at the end of the day in the comments on this post that I've done what I decided to do. And I will feel very good. In fact, I'm feeling less irascible already.
I invite you to join me and make a commitment of your own here, today or at any time. Remember that it doesn't have to be large to work. Some days I've gotten myself started by committing to a mere 5 minutes.
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Okay, I did it: made my quotas and more. I spent a little over an hour on the project I needed to get going on. And just short of 3 hours on my novel.
Declaring myself did the trick. No way I wasn't going to come back to this space with good news.
Nice job meeting and exceeding your deadline. Here goes - tomorrow morning, I will get up early and write for at least a half an hour - not check out favorite sites and blogs, not e-mail, just write. I'll check back in with you after that - thanks for the accountability inspiration!
It worked - wrote for a half hour! Actually got to what keeps me from taking my writing seriously in the first place, and a letter to my grandmother.
Thanks!
Yay, J.B. Rowell! I'm delighted to see you using this space to give your writing a boost. I look forward to hearing how it went.
Okay, I just saw your second message. Better outcome than anybody could expect. Terrific!
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