Have Your Cookie & Eat It

This is going to sound so twenty-first century, but being a blogger is hard work! Especially since most writers I assume have day jobs or other freelance obligations. How do they keep up with posting interested and thoughtfully assembled pieces each week? Maybe it isn't as hard as I believe it to be. Or maybe it really is difficult and I need to suck it up.

I've been toying lately with the idea of goals. Why do we set them? What do we gain from them? Why do some stick and others fail? My new job has required reading to help me dive into a new business-dynamic mindset. One such book, Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, is about changing the way you perceive change. It's about making a switch in your life--one that you truly want to make--without totally changing who you are and how you think. For example, to stop eating cookies, I could just tell myself they are unhealthy and therefore make myself feel bad each time I eat one. According to Switch, that is entirely the wrong approach. People's habits and thought processes are not made to easily flip by will power alone. It takes some strategic planning and thinking tied along with the emotional side. Of course I want to eat that cookie right now. If I only listen to my emotions then I will eat it, straight away. If I only listen to my rational then I will never eat it. But if I combine forces and have a little pay off with a little self-control then I win. This book explains how. Though I haven't finished yet, it has good food for thought.

All this rambling about goals and blogging is because it is something I want to achieve, but need to work on. I've written about this before and pondered why it is that some activities we love are the hardest to complete. I adore writing, yet keeping up with it on a regular basis is, at times, daunting. At the end of a long day I usually want to curl up on the couch with a book and cup of lavender tea.

Well, all I can say for this post is that I am back on the blog. I will try my best to keep up with it no matter how hard the week is. In the end it feels far better to accomplish something rather than to keep putting it off and feel lazy. Now I'll go eat my cookie as a reward.