The Show Must Go On (Blog to Learn, Day 19)

I am awake earlier than usual today in order to take care of some necessary tasks prior to the closing of our musical run tonight. I had a dream that someone stood me up for dinner, probably because I did not get the chance to eat a full meal after the show, and it was far too late to consider doing so. I also have very little to eat in my refrigerator, after exhausting my post-break supplies. Obviously, groceries are on the list. They are also on the ever-growing list of things that I can learn to batch. I am starting to realize that batching might be more difficult than it looks, so I'll have to be careful when I'm planning my blog posts for the month of May.

In general, I think that the Blog to Learn challenge was an absolute success. I started late, in the middle of April. I even missed a few days here and there, but I still managed to fall into the habit of regular blogging. In fact, I look forward to it, every morning. I also learned a lot about my motivations, which are leading me directly to the first official experiment, beginning tomorrow. I also got to the important part of the process when I wanted to rebel against blogging. I started to recognize that I could use the time I spend blogging each morning for other things, like exercising or job-hunting. I think that it is important to keep this writing process in tact, though. Writing forces me to focus on the things in my life that demand attention.

I do have a tendency toward catastrophic indecision, and last night as I was driving home, I was struck with a thousand other things that I wanted to substitute for the batching challenge: diet and exercise, decluttering/housecleaning, paperwork, socialization, adventure/excursion based experiments, and on and on.... Rather than looking at this urge as a call to avoid the batching challenge that has presented itself so naturally, I'm going to look at it as a sign of success. I can always include all of these ideas in miniature, as part of the batching challenge, itself. I might even free up enough time and avoid enough anxiety over things left "undone" that I can fill with other goals. I think that I'm headed in the right direction. The trick is to keep moving.