Back in the Game

After much consideration, I have decided to revive my blog. Primarily due to the fact that I still feel just as passionately about the same reasons I wanted to start it. And I miss it!

So much has been going on and I won't even attempt to try to recap it all. It's a new year (which is crazy), and I look forward to sharing all the new and exciting things with you.

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Happy 2011 Everyone!

~S

Back to Basics

Hello world! According to Blogger, my last blog post was March 10. That equates to a little over five months. It really feels like five weeks. It's been a wild and crazy spring and summer and as fall approaches, I'm realizing more that I need to take a break and get back to the things I love.

I think about my blog often and have difficulty with deciding what to blog about. So much happens in the course of a day, it can be a bit overwhelming. All of the writers I respect advise to "write no matter what". I've decided to keep myself accountable and help myself out a bit.

I'm getting back to basics - the alphabet. There are 26 letters in the alphabet. I am committing to beginning at the beginning - of the alphabet - and choosing a word that starts with a different letter of the alphabet each time. I will start with 'A' and end with 'Z'. That gives me four months to blog 26 times. That should be easy enough, right?

Stay tuned...

~S

Procrastination

Last weekend Jamaal and I took a yuppie field trip to Target. (Don't be offended, you know that's what yuppie couples do. Target, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, all the same. Embrace your yuppiness.)

After finishing our shopping trip, we ventured over to Barnes & Noble. In resisting the temptation for a grande mocha,I ventured over to the reduced books section. I noticed a book about procrastination and thought "I need that." I wondered around more and ended up in the original spot with the procrastination book.
Don't get me wrong. I get the things that are necessary completed fairly easily. However, I often find difficulty starting, nevertheless accomplishing, the things on my "Dream Big, Life's Too Short, Anything is Possible, To Do List". Who or what I'm waiting for, I don't know.

Since I was there, I read the book jacket and found it to be quite enlightening. The book basically asserts that while some view procrastination and workaholicism as two different things, the author believes they are actually two components that work together to form a cycle-procrastination (generally a lack of work) creates workaholicism (an overabundance of work). People either become addicted to the extremes or become conditioned to operating this way. Interesting thought and, describes my pattern perfectly. I walked around with the book but decided not to buy it because I would be recreating the pattern that the book is describing. I didn't need one more item on my neverending to do list.

But, it prompted a new perspective. I have decided to confront my procrastination head on and get some things crossed off my list.

Stay tuned...

P.S. Did you know that an & is not allowed in a tag in Blogger? So I can't use Barnes & Noble? Really?