I am now on day 7 of my little no tv/no texting/no facebooking challenge... and while I miss all three (especially texting!) I gotta say... this has been really easy. I mean REALLY easy. Almost too easy. I had expected that I would be going into some kind of "why can't June be over yet?!?!" withdrawals by now.
Sure, there are times when I think "Oh, I would love to be able to text this to that person" or "Darn, if it wasn't June I would totally make that my Facebook status!" And of course, with work being so physically exerting this week, I have more than once thought about how great would it be to just veg out in front of the TV.
But I know that I can't do it, so I don't. I don't try to make excuses as to why it is OK just this once. I don't get tempted to cheat. It's just... easy. What I need to do is come up with a real challenge for myself! I'm not going to do anything crazy like try to give up the internet, or email, or breathing. Those things are necessary in my life, and quite frankly, they are extremely beneficial. It also wouldn't make sense for me to say "I will give up junk food" because for the last 2 weeks, I have been eating healthy anyway (for no particular reason). I haven't really had any junk food in a while.
Maybe what I should do is challenge myself to start writing that book! I still haven't begun on it. I did finish reading another book, I've organized everything in my house, I went through and deleted all the junk and old mail I didn't need anymore in my email account... but still, haven't started writing.
I guess I will start it when the moment is right. I do try to not be too hard on myself for not working on it though, because I am doing little things that I have been meaning to do for months or years! However, if I don't start it up soon, I may have to officially make it part of the "challenge". Maybe the challenge will be that I must write at least 1 page a day. It's just that I really don't want to have to do that... I'd much rather be writing because the story in my head just can't wait to come out on paper, not because I am forced.
Have you started to write down ideas for books? Perhaps you could join a writers group. They probably have some in your area.
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