What is that about the best laid plans of mice and men? I should be a case study for that phrase. I had laid out a plan of action for my summer reading. I would breeze through book after book effortlessly. Relaxing day by day in the hammock, chapter by chapter, burning through post it flags underlining like a machine!
Until Monday I had read 4 chapters of one book.
I had lost my momentum. I'm back on track now. I've been reading most of the day. I stopped to eat lunch and hang out with the fat dog for a bit. I am outside at the new work friendly table, instead of the lazy hammock and that seems to have changed my perspective. This change of "venue" made me think.
How do you get in the state of mind to write? Maybe my most of my hurdles are self inflicted. I've already realized my fear is of my own creation. Seems like my sloth is as well. I've always been the kind of person who reads and studies in bed but perhaps I need to adjust that mentality for the looseness of summer. The lack of structure is obviously a problem.
First step to fixing a problem is identifying it. So, I should probably stop blogging and start reading. Where did those Puritans run off to...
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