Today, I’m sitting on a Delta flight on my way to Atlanta for meetings. It just dawned on me that since I hadn’t been traveling since early May, I also hadn’t been blogging with any sort of consistency. *light*
Flight time was “me” time – it was the time I used to organize my thoughts and write blog posts. Every day “regular” time is the time spent doing everything else – living, working, breathing…. but not writing.
Now that I understand the WHY, it’s time to modify my behavior and make sure that I have scheduled “me” time to write weekly.
This revelation also highlighted something else – I had become reliant on 4 hour blocks of time, 2-4 times per month, in order to sufficiently flush things out and gain clarity – whether it was work related or personal. Without these guaranteed blocks of time, I had at first gone through a sort of withdrawl and increased “cloudiness” for a few weeks. Once I realized the root cause, I had to thoughtfully plan in my week time to do that which I used to do while trapped on a plane.
Do you have your YOU time? When does it work out best for you to block off time and just focus on organizing your thoughts for writing and organizing your thoughts?
Annie Tsai 