No, I haven't been to bed yet. No, it's not insomnia for once. This is my own stubbornness of sticking to a publishing schedule.
I need to learn how to stick to a schedule again if I want my business to work. Back in 2012 and 2013, I didn't have a problem. I HAD to schedule everything, or nothing got done. I was homeschooling, working a retail job, and writing.
When everything fell apart in 2013, I still managed to keep a schedule. I would have collapsed into a ball of despair otherwise.
But when 2015 rolled around, I was having to keep other people's schedules. That lasted until 2018, when I simply didn't have the mental space to schedule anything beyond the multitude of my own medical appointments.
So I found myself working on relearning something that used to be habitual. Hopefully, this old dog can relearn her old tricks.
I've encountered the same issue. Staying on track without external motivators.
ReplyDeleteGuess we both need to work on that pesky internal motivation.
DeleteI seriously suck at scheduling myself. I'm another one who has a hard time with internal motivation. I can hit other people's schedules (unless I'm in the hospital, or otherwise barfing my brains out) but my own deadlines? Meh. [sigh]
ReplyDeleteAngie
Sometimes, all you can do is work within the boundaries biology has thrown at you.
DeleteBut other times, yeah, it's hard to prod yourself along...