Hey Reader!
Sorry for missing my post last week. Things got really busy at work as we were winding down the semester. Now it’s a few days past Christmas and, like many other folks, I’m enjoying some needed downtime.
I’ll be back on January 10th with a new post.
Stay Awesome,
Ryan
For all the lip-service paid on this blog about doing the work, I have been posting late recently. My target is supposed to be going live by 9am on Monday mornings, yet I can’t remember the last time I had a post scheduled to go live on time in a while. I think the last time I was ahead was heading out for my honeymoon in 2019, where I had three weeks lead time while I was away.
Part of why I’m behind continues to be working from home – in the before times, I would procrastinate in the office from real work by writing. But since working from home over the last twenty or so months, all time feels like procrastination time. With no one looking over my shoulder, it doesn’t matter what I am doing on my screen so long as I continue to deliver on the goods.
And as with most procrastination, the longer I go past my deadline (e.g. today), the harder it gets to get to work on the task. It usually results in taking a mulligan for the week, or cobbling together a half-thought into a semi-stream of consciousness post just to have something shipped. You’re welcome.
It feels good to publish, but I shouldn’t consider it a win to get something up for the week for the sake of hitting the metric. At the same time, I should extend myself some measure of kindness and acknowledge that I still did the work.
I still show up to do the work, just not according to what was expected of a professional.
Stay Awesome,
Ryan
I had intended to get a post out this week, despite the holiday Monday.
Then I got distracted.
And I kept forgetting.
Now I feel the anxiety closing in.
And so I release this week, and any obligation I feel towards being clever.
Stay Awesome,
Ryan
Hi!
Sorry to miss this blog post, but I’m away from my keyboard this week on vacation.
I’ll be back next week.
Please enjoy the lull and stay safe.
Stay Awesome,
Ryan
Our family is moving houses today, so unfortunately I haven’t had time to prepare a formal blog post. Instead, I’ll use this post to celebrate my wife – moving during a pandemic is hard and being a first time mother is really challenging, yet somehow she has managed to pull together all of the logistics of the sale and move, and packed nearly everything in the house, AND been a wonderful mother to our son, while I am working from home.
She’s Awesome.
Ryan
I apologize for having no post this week. We are moving houses and everything has started coming together rather quickly, so I’m being pulled in multiple directions and didn’t have anything prepared.
I didn’t want the week to go by without acknowledging the silence.
See you next week!
Stay Awesome,
Ryan
I had planned intended to write a post over the weekend. No plan survives contact with the enemy, as Helmuth von Moltke quipped, and between the Canadian long weekend and a new baby, my intentions are still not getting turned into plans or actions. It’s all part of the learning process, and I have a ways to go.
As I continue to adjust to my new life, I will have to continue to adapt and learn new ways to get things done.
Stay Awesome,
Ryan
Despite my promise to do better on the Friday before last, I did not get a post up this past Friday (largely due to a report at work that kept me occupied during the day) AND I had no post ready yesterday (largely due to not keeping a regular writing schedule).
I’ve found sense of pride in not missing a weekly deadline for the last few years, but things have ground to a halt recently. I’ve let my workflow dry up in favour of short dopamine hits (my distraction of choice being YouTube) to take the edge off of the anxiety around not getting work done.
Thankfully, I have some time off of work coming up, which will help with recharging the old creative batteries. I’ll be back next Monday with a real post.
Stay Awesome,
Ryan
I’m sorry.
There is no formal round-up post this week. I’ve done a poor job with staying on top of things, so I don’t really have a curated list to share. Don’t get me wrong – lots of stuff happened this week both awesome and thought-provoking, but I didn’t do a good job of carrying those items forward into a coherent post. I noted in my journal this week how disappointed I’ve felt with my output recently, and I narrowed it down to a lack of consistency. When we first entered the isolation period, I was coasting on the momentum of my regular systems. However, those systems have atrophied over the last month, and the content funnels aren’t getting filled like they used to.
I’ll do better next week.
Stay Awesome,
Ryan
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