Hey Everyone!
So it’s Tuesday night, and I decided to work on updating my website a bit more.
I had already decided that I would do my creative work on weekends and during the week on Wednesdays and Fridays, since those are the days I am working from home, and would naturally be less tired, have more time and have a fresher mind as I would not have spent any time commuting to and from the office, so of course this makes a lot of sense to me.
Mind you, today is Tuesday, but as I am feeling really excited and happy and super motivated and inspired about starting up my creative ventures again, I thought “hey, let’s just do some work on the website today, who cares if it’s a Tuesday, it’s fine!” HA! Silly rabbit.
By the time I sat down and opened my laptop, it was nearly 8:00 pm. It had already been a particularly busy and exhausting day at work, factor in the train and bus ride back home, then arriving at home drained, settling down, having some dinner, decompressing a bit - by this time my energy reserves are nearly completely spent. But I’m still thinking, “hey, who cares, even if I just do a little bit of work it’s ok!” 😑
Well, I’m sure you can already imagine how that went. I started out by making little tweaks - add a button here, change some text there, let’s resize this bit - hey, let me add some social media share buttons for people who would like to share my blog post or website!
Two hours later I’m down a rabbit hole of watching YouTube tutorial videos on ‘what are the best ways to share your blog’, then I start wondering “well I need to promote my site!” So then I’m watching another video on how to promote my blog on social media, then I go back to my website and by now my eyes are burning, everything on there now seems to be blending in together, I’m getting more and more frustrated with it all because OMG nothing is working!! This is so hard!! No wonder I stopped doing this!! It’s too my effort!! Very near to tears at this point 😂
So I just saved my progress (which was basically none) and put away my laptop.
Now by this time I am already in bed, and I suddenly remember that I have an app on my phone where I can create posts that will save directly to my blog, so lo and behold this is what I am doing now.
Moral of the story: just stick to your original plan , Elaine! Don’t work on creative stuff when you know you’re absolutely exhausted, as you will just end up feeling angry, frustrated and resentful and most likely accomplish nothing. It’s not the blog’s fault! 🙃
Hope my idiocy tonite at least made you chuckle a bit.
And guess what??! Tomorrow is WEDNESDAY - one of my ‘designated’ creative work days!! 😆 oh Lordy. I’d better call it a nite now.
Have a good’n everyone! See you in the next one!
Elaine ❤️
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