This week is week 10 of the stay at home directives. I don’t like to use quarantine because it’s not, and words matter. When this all started, none of us really knew how long we would be doing this. I am lucky in that I have worked from home a lot before so I have a good setup here and at work it has been easy to make the transition. The rest of things, not so much.

This blog is a good example. I used to plan out the topics I would discuss and have things rolling forward, always about a month out. Now I’m writing Monday morning at 6:30. It’s getting a more accurate view of where things are at that moment in time, but it’s leaving me feeling rushed. My creativity is strained, but I guess that makes sense, stress doesn’t necessarily support the creative mind, and there’s plenty of stress right now.

I was thinking about things last night, and I realized that most of the habits I have are built around a life on the go. Now that my life is centered at home, I’ve let all of those other habits slip away, and I’m drifting. So I need to rectify that.

That means this week, I’m going to sit down, dust off my planner (I mean seriously when was the last time I looked at my planner) and make a plan for several things. Make new habits for the things that I want to get done. I know it’s not just going to come flowing out of me, but I know if I put pen to paper, I can get a better view of things. Pen to paper allows my brain to function differently than working on a computer does and I think that is going to help.

So please excuse another Monday 6:30 am post, next week will be better.