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I gave myself two goals at the start of this year:
1) Continuously work on a couple of post for each blog in advance, so that my writing improved (more drafting = more thinking = better writing).
2) Read 50 books in 52 weeks so that my reading discipline would improve (I love books but eeking out time to read has been an issue).
Your focus determines your reality (Qui Gon-Jinn).
These goals have been in the front of each blogging/reading week and that's lead to a certain impact on my psyche.
Not a bad thing (relentless positivity) but the clock was ticking all year and I did feel the pressure at times.
Time is always the issue. I knew it would be.
'Eeking' was the right word to use up there. Time snatched before school, after dinner, during found moments. Getting a balance has been tough!
Apart from 'me' time (that includes dancing to music time), there's relationship time, school work time (huge chunk of the week), making and drinking tea time, chore time, walking the dog time, project time (horse yards sort of stuff), eating meal time, socialising with colleagues time...you get the idea.
So, how did I do?
Hmmm. Not so well with the first. Although I still managed (for the most part) to maintain the post a day regime, I only managed to keep ahead of the publishing date with three blogs, but Wozza's Place and Baggy Trousers posts were often started the night before and second draft before posting in the morning. Not good enough!
But, there was great success with the second goal.
Week 47 is just getting underway. In the last month I've read two books and started another two.
Book 46: Submission (Michel Houellebecq) from The Piggery (Whangarei). I really enjoy reading books in translation - they provide a great edginess. Houellebecq can be frightening. If you've never read him try this one for openers.
Book 47: The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz (L. Frank Baum) $2 from a Hospice shop in Waipu. Yes, the inspiration for the movie - great little book in its own right.
Book 48: Platform (Michel Houellebecq) also from The Piggery (Whangarei). An exercise in examining a thoroughly unlikeable protagonist.
Book 49: Thank You For Being Late (Thomas L. Friedman) was mentioned at a conference earlier in the year and I noted the title, bought it online from Mighty Ape. Great - up there with Velocity (high praise indeed).
Book 50 (and onwards 51 -52): As I've mentioned previously - I want to finish the year (and this exercise) by re-reading the Gormenghast trilogy (Mervyn Peake).
Love and peace - Wozza
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