Downtime

[wyld_dandelyon]

I've always liked spontaneity, giving myself the freedom, as much as possible, to do what I want to do in the moment. I've also always dreamed big, wanting to do many different things, and do them well. Add to that the necessity of paying my own bills, and my time is always seriously booked.

I find myself having to think about scheduling downtime. Time to read, time to watch TV, time to play games. Time to sleep.

Sleep is particularly important, since exhaustion resembles writer's block quite thoroughly.

I guess one of my goals in the new year should be to schedule--or give myself kudos for spontaneously grabbing--enough good, quality downtime.

But not today. Right now, I have to pay bills, and I have a story half-written that's inspired by the Journal of Unlikely Entomology's current theme, and I do want to get a proper bio up over at Amazon and Goodreads (where I now have new, under-construction author pages), and the next installment of Wild Snowy Chase to finish (will it finally be the last one? That's the plan anyway.) and ...

Work now, downtime later!

Comments

[mdlbear]

Sounds good. Getting enough sleep and other downtime is one of the hardest parts of self-care.

[red_trillium]

I agree. There are lots of things I like to do, want to do, have to do. I have found that this year because of what happened at work I'm much more easily stressed about the things I don't get done. My list of open tabs of journals to get back to can be enough to make me feel overwhelmed. I'm working on it, starting with giving myself permission to take downtime. Now to get back in the swing and actively work on scheduling better so I can enjoy the things I used to enjoy & not feel guilty about them because of piles of laundry to be put away or bills not yet paid.

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[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year almost