Thursday 27 May 2010

When Life Gets In The Way

For last few weeks, my journal has been quite neglected. It's not abandoned, as I still manage to jot down bits now and again, but I haven't done "proper" journaling. It's funny, because I always notice it now when I am not spending enough time with my journal. Sometimes I think I haven't written for ages, and when I open the journal I find it's been two days.


But I also feel that I have to be in the right mood to journal. Currently, I am so bogged down with other tasks I want to complete. Learning Spanish and Editing my book are the main priorities and it's bad enough keeping up with them, along with everything else that must be done. And a part of me wants to write all the details of this in my journal. I want to record it all - ups and downs. But then I find that I am so busy doing it that I don't have time or energy to write it. 


Not a good feeling. So I believe some regular journaling time - at least every weekend - will have to be scheduled. Eventually I get back into journaling groove when nothing stops me from scribbling, but on downtimes like this, one must not neglect the journal. At least not for too long.

3 comments:

  1. Sorry to hear that - I hope things slow down for you soon...

    I haven't been journalling lately either - must get back to doing that soon. Better put it back on the goals list this week...

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  2. Jamie,

    My business is self-inflicted. Throwing Spanish in with already going schedule of editing/writing kind of creates a time shortage, but putting journaling on goals list is definitely a good idea. I used to that and it worked. What I need to do is to spend some quality time on it. Let's see if I can manage it this weekend :-)

    And YAY for your journaling!!

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  3. I blog on the weekends. It's time-consuming, but I don't feel overwhelmed by it.

    I hope you get some down time soon so you can relax a bit.

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