This blogging thing

I decided that I would write a blog every day in order to challenge myself. I considered some of the  challenges that I would face but of course not all of them. I set a routine for myself so that I would be able to remember everything. At the end of each day, I sit down and record all that I have accomplished and then write my blog. Sounds simply enough, who can't do that? I have been doing it nearly every day for the last couple of months, there was some faltering at the beginning but I expected that. What I didn't expect was that as I get more into my routine, I add more things to do each day, push myself a little harder that I would actually forget...Some of you that know me better than I do probably could have predicted this and in retrospect, I could have to. Now I just have to make some adjustments.
I was really missing my Sunday morning blog... reflecting on my week, sharing the ups and downs, I really liked it. I decided that I would break my routine of blogging at the end of each day on Sundays and write in the morning like I used to. It didn't work, it threw me off for a couple of days, I had to work really hard to get back into the routine of evening blogging.  I also thought that I would blog in the morning on short change, that failed for a different reason. If I blog one day in the morning and the next in the evening, throw in 16 hours of work, approx. 5 hours of sleep, I feel like I haven't been engaged in my kung fu for days. So evening blogging it is, I just have to make it so high of a priority that I won't miss it. It may take a couple of days to get back into the swing of things but that is my latest plan.
It's sort of funny that when you make a goal to challenge yourself, it doesn't feel like it will be hard, just challenging. Maybe I need to recognize that sometimes, challenging is hard! It doesn't make it undo-able, just hard!

Sifu Robyn Kichko
http://mantismantle.blogspot.ca/