Lists

I'm a list maker. I make lists to help me focus on the things I feel I need to do. And while it helps at work it doesn't help in my personal life. I have a daily list:

• Write
• Exercise
• Practice piano
• Read

It's not long and yet I never seem to do each thing every day.

It's not lost on me that these are mostly creative things and I feel creativity is lacking in my life. I have no doubt that part of the cause of my lack of motivation is fatigue. With three kids, there is homework and bedtime routines and general chaos. It's like my batteries get so drained that I don't have the energy to do the things that would recharge them.

So I've decided to attack them one by one and get them into my routine. This blog was my attempt to do the first item. I'll admit it's been slow going largely because I don't have a lot of ideas. But, as I've heard so often, one of the best cures for writer's block is to write. So here I am rambling on and inflicting the result on any unfortunate soul who happens by.

I also write a poetry blog (Time for a Poem) and have used Three Word Wednesday as a prompt for that and I suppose I could do the same here. I suppose it is a rather docile approach to the problem but there's nothing wrong with going with the tried and true.

The last item on the list has been tough because I have started a book that I'm not particularly enjoying and yet it is hard for me to quit a book in the middle. The book is The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens. I really expected to like it more. I loved Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol is probably my favorite novel and yet I feel that compared with the bang of those works, this one is just a whimper.

Maybe I should rearrange the list into a better order of attack as in:

• Write
• Read
• Practice piano
• Exercise

And then just drop TPP in favor of something else once the play is complete. I do have an enormous list of books I would like to read and I am open to suggestions if anyone has them.