Two Valuable Insights

I return to blogging with the following two realizations, which pertain not just to blogging but to life in general:

• Failure to realize perfect execution of a plan does not imply the necessity of abandoning that plan. I've tried to restart my blogging with a regular schedule of Monday-Wednesday-Friday, but in the past as soon as I've slipped at all I've abandoned the plan. No longer.
• Viewing your day-to-day assignments/plans/appointments as things to just get through rather than as things to enjoy, both for themselves and for their eventual results, is a sure-fire way to kill motivation. I've always restarted blogging because I remember I like the outlet for ideas, but I've been looking at the "write a blog post" time slot in my calendar as a burden to just get through. My goal with respect to this realization is to eventually approach everything I do, whether it be getting up with my alarm, doing the laundry, or writing a dissertation, with as much (if not more) excitement and enjoyment as I have when I watch a new episode of House or curl up with a good book. I know this is possible because I know that I like these activities when I'm not thinking about how pressing it is that I do them.

These insights come to you via a combination of intense introspection of motives, extrospection of the actions and motivations of productive men, and a few choice statements by my wonderful girlfriend which allowed me to put all of the pieces together.