Slipping

A few weeks ago I decided to make an effort to keep adding content to this site and set myself a daily reminder to write a blog entry. It didn’t matter what I wrote about as long as I wrote something most days (weekdays at least). For a while I did fairly well, sometimes writing about something I had done or thought about at work, other times about some random topic that had come to mind or about an book I had read or a podcast I had listened to. It didn’t matter that no-one (well, almost no-one) looks at this site – that wasn’t the point. Really, I am writing for myself just as a practice/ regular discipline. I was feeling pretty pleased with myself.

Unfortunately, it looks like I have slipped off the track. The last entry before this one was a week and a half ago. This means that I have ignored 10 days of daily reminders when they pop up on my phone. Actually it is worse than that. I haven’t simply ignored, or not noticed, them. I have clicked a button to confirm that they have been completed so that they have each gone away (only to come back again the next day). I don’t want this to happen. I want to try to maintain a close-to-daily discipline of writing something. Hence this post. Slipping off the track is something that I have always been fairly good at, although perhaps it would be fairer to say that I am pretty good at switching off one track onto another as I am always busy and always trying to accomplish something like this.

I have a few possible topics for upcoming entries. I have just about finished reading another book and will write about that. I want to put down a few thoughts about Aristotle’s ideas on ‘flourishing’, I could reflect on my latest (there I go again) method of trying to get fitter/stronger each morning and I am sure I could write something about where my running is at at the moment. It’s just a matter of sticking with it. I always think that having ideas isn’t too difficult, the difficult part is turning them into action. That’s really what this writing discipline is all about – action, action, action.