Sometimes life sneaks up on you and your carefully laid plans and the time and space you’ve set aside for yourself gets bumped or interrupted. What do you do in that case? Easy, you roll with it and make the best of the situation.
For the past 7 days (!) I’ve written and published something to this blog. I have started at least 5 or 6 blogs over the years with the intention of writing regularly, and I’ve never once had a running streak this long. One thing that has helped me stay on track this time around is dedicating my lunch hour solely to writing for the blog. Well, today my lunch time needed to be taken at an earlier time for something of far greater importance. But what to do about my writing time and this 7 day streak I have going? It would be easy to let this one day slip and just get back on track tomorrow. But unfortunately for me, building up momentum on any project can be so hard and breaking it, even for one day, could be disastrous. I’ve loved this time to write out my thoughts and share them here and I want this to continue. So, to stay on track I’m just going to take the 15 minutes I’ve got right now today to pound this little post out. It will be unedited and raw as I type it here. And i’m ok with that and I hope you are too. So the lesson to myself, and hopefully to you, is don’t let life’s inevitable hiccups interfere with a good thing going. When those bumps come, be ok with doing your best in the time you’ve been given to keep up that momentum. Your future self will thank you for the effort.