One of my goals this year was to write a blog post every day this year. Unfortunately, I got too close to a bed a little too early Monday night and that was it. I was out cold, with nothing posted and my exhausted mind on a trip to la la land.
I must admit, it felt pretty good. At least, it felt good until about 2AM when I woke up and couldn’t get back to sleep. I finally got out of bed about 4:30 and went to the gym to work out.
Anyway, Tuesday was surprisingly busy, and somehow not having posted on Monday it was a lot easier to blow off posting on Tuesday. On the heels of blowing off Tuesday came the thought that I should just take an extended break from blogging altogether. As the weather gets nice and there are so many other things to do, it is tempting.
Isn’t that the way it is with all our disciplines? Whether it is dieting or exercise, going to church or reading the Bible, having family dinner or volunteering on a regular basis, when we give ourselves a break it is even easier to take another one, keep the break going, and eventually quit altogether.
Which is why I figured I better get back in the saddle today. Tomorrow might just be too late!
Well said Rob!
Posted by: Alan D | April 15, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Maybe you set the goal post too high(**). Maybe you made blog posting a higher priority than it merits. There's no reason that you can't re-negotiate! That's not to say that we, your ever faithful flock of readers, wouldn't enjoy a post every day, but really there ARE more important things...
**Get it? Blog post, goal post? I crack me up sometimes. Or maybe it's too many antihistamines...
Posted by: Jan | April 16, 2009 at 09:32 AM
Thanks for coming back, Rob. I've missed reading.
(thanks for the puns, too, Jan!)
Posted by: mindy | April 16, 2009 at 10:37 AM
I'm glad you didn't take too much time off.
Posted by: Kris | April 17, 2009 at 01:49 PM