January 2nd, 2020 – 463

~ Sam Shuttleworth

I’ve not had a bad start to the year all told. I’ve typed the first 1K of WHT, and while I haven’t written yet tonight I’m confident the second thousand will follow. There is a problem however, and it’s this negative habit loop I appear to be stuck in. Call it ‘1AM target’, and it goes a bit like this:

  1. Get up late
  2. Spend the day bleary and out of it
  3. Laze around to feel better
  4. Blog late
  5. Write even later
  6. Sleep late
  7. Repeat

That’s ok on paper, and so long as I write before I sleep it counts, but damn this is pretty appalling for my quality of life. Best I can do is write target soon, rest up and hope I can kick myself back into gear in time for work.

I should clarify, bad for my productive quality of life. In terms of my rest and relaxation I’m doing pretty well at the moment. My cube is all up to date and I may even be running a game of it tomorrow, so that’ll be cool. I’m doing alright, and while yes I keep goofing off until late I’m having fun doing it.

Feeling ready to hit the ground running at work as sad as it sounds was my priority this holiday, after writing of course. The flats looking great, and yes it’s freezing cold but I’ll get that sorted soon. I’ve got to give the gas people a call to fix that one. It’s all manageable little tasks and measurable goals. The sleep cycle is the gnarly one, but I can deal with that.

I’ll start writing in a bit anyway, as I’m not keen to sleep through the rest of my holiday. All told, things are good right now, and I’m feeling confident about the year ahead.

Published by Sam Shuttleworth

I’m Sam, and I live to write. I spent most of the first 8 years of my adulthood trying to balance writing with a large amount of crap in my personal life, until towards the end of 2018 I threw everything out and started afresh with just my writing. I built the new me around one goal: I have to write at least 1,000 words a day. I called this goal 1K, and it changed my life. So long as I write a thousand words a day, the day is a success, and atop that I've managed over time to build the life I wanted all those years. My greatest flaws as a writer is I still use too many adjectives, adverbs, connectives as openers, accidental passive voice and I don't force my work down people's throats enough on pain of extreme and unusual torture. My greatest strength is I know my greatest flaws and I'm working on them.