by Ira | Aug 21, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Man, today was one of those days where everything kinda just went off the rails. Sigh. It wasn’t a mental day off. It wasn’t laziness. There was just a lot of un-planned urgent stuff that had to be taken care of today, and I spent most of it driving around...
by Ira | Aug 20, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Doing this one quick tonight because it’s bed time…but I took a mental day off today. I was tired. Worn down. A little burned out, and the weekend just hadn’t been enough to recharge me. So, I did. The wonders of working for one’s self....
by Ira | Aug 19, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
So, I’ve written fifteen thousand words this week. And that’s forty-five thousand words over three weeks…which is rather incredible to me. Just a few months ago, I would have set a goal like that and utterly failed. I’d have beaten myself up...
by Ira | Aug 18, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
My baseball team, the Oakland A’s, are in first place today. This is exciting, because nobody saw this coming at the beginning of the season, not even me. We’ve languished for a number of years after trading away our best (and impendingly expensive)...
by Ira | Aug 17, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
Man, my morning routine is SO important to my productivity. I’m not sure exactly when that happened, but it’s true. If I let myself get distracted and go off the rails in the morning, I have a really, reeeaalllyyy hard time getting myself back on track....
