Old habit die very, very hard y’all.
I would bet you good money that nearly every single last work day of a month for me this year has followed a similar storyline as today’s: distracted, in an out of productivity, but ultimately mostly successful.
That was today, anyway. I don’t like that it happens…but it does. It gives me a goal for next month’s end, I suppose. Onward and upward.
Writing didn’t happen today, le sigh. It will tomorrow, and then Wednesday two-fold. I know I can make that happen, and I will. Good progress is being made! I had another good idea today about how to introduce new story-lines, but keep it connected and relevant.
At the very least I felt much more energetic today, and I got 20 minutes done. That used to be a full work day, yo! And it was my “struggle” day today. I still have four and a half minutes to make up tomorrow and the next two days. Yes. THREE days off instead of two. I know, craziness. I did it that way because if I didn’t, Liz would be doing all three rent days on her own, and that just didn’t seem fair 😛 This way, I do two and she does one. Much better.
The building was pretty quiet today, but the office wasn’t, which was the source of *some* of my distraction. Mostly, though, it was a pile of sendbacks. The people who review my lessons for errors and suggestions has really bulked back up, and the turnaround time is suuuuper quick now, which means I can get slogged if I don’t turn them around quickly. It also means I hoard lessons so that I can work for a few hours until my checked out works goes dry, and then do all my sendbacks and once, and then snag another hoard of work to tide me over after that. And then cycle repeats itself. But days like today, that time to do all the sendbacks at once can be a solid hour. I spent about two hours today doing sendbacks. Ugh. But, you gotta do what oyu gotta do.
I’m very happy with this month of September. Last year, I remember feeling very fustrated because I hadn’t done ANYTHING this month. Not so this time around. Very productive on many fronts. It’s not quite time yet for October, but I’m already looking forward to the rest of the year.
Lots to do!
Tomorrow…I golf! I think… 🙂
ps- I know this is *technically* my 700th entry…but since I already did that retrospective-type entry 100 days ago, I’m just going to leave this as the work journal that it is 😛 Here’s to a hundred more!