7:00 am
I began my journaling in earnest on the 1st day of July, and since then I haven't missed a day. My fear is if I don't do my journaling | blogging | vlogging at the same time each day, do I set myself up for failure? What would failure look like for me?
I just read a blog about the importance of looking at Monday as a fresh start, but my hope is to learn to look to each day as a fresh beginning for my work. It is easy to slip into a mindset, for me, to think of one thing ruining my work. Mistakes, as I stress to my students, are valuable to the learning process. Why can't I look at my work rigor in the same way? Why can't I use lapses in routine as my learning tool? If I don't bike one day, am I going to fall apart in other areas? Why am I so hard on myself?
Some of these thoughts are just the little voice in my head bugging me to work and disparaging me when I don't. One thing I am going to try to practice is to write one negative thought on a paper a day, and to throw it away. Then I will have the courage to start again the next day.
