Super Productivity November! Yay!

Well, November is here...ready or not!  I've now been back in Alabama for almost a month, and though I've been moderately productive, I've allowed a few things to pull my attention away from my goals.  Some of it has been necessary and unavoidable - unpacking and spending time with the family - but some of it has been laziness - sitting on the couch and gorging on TV after not having it for four months.  However, I have decided that this month will be super productivity November!    It's got to be!  I want too much out of life to allow seconds, minutes, days, and so forth tick on by with nothing to show for it!  This month is the time for determination, perseverance, and ambition to kick into overdrive!

I was talking to my cousin the other day about how easy it is to allow yourself to slip into a pattern of procrastination and inactivity.  It takes so much less effort to sit on the couch and stare out the window than it does to put pen to paper and construct something creative.  I love to write.  It's my passion...and has been for as long as I can remember.  However, there are some days when my head hurts more at the thought of figuring out a plot line than it would if I banged it against the wall for eight hours.  Some days I can feel the story in the very beats of my heart, but I just can't get my brain and fingertips to translate it into words that do it any justice at all.  On those days, the words "fail" and "can't" start creeping into my thought process, and I start thinking I should've taken another route...another path.

It's frustrating.  It really is.  And when it gets so frustrating is when I want to just set it aside and stare at the TV or out the window...or to run screaming across the pasture (I am back on the farm, you know)...but if I start taking too many days to stare at the TV, then I really don't get anything done at all...and that's just a waste.  There are times for a break, and there are times to power through.  Now is certainly my time to turn up the burners and plow right on through.  I've got too many projects and thoughts and inklings that have been set aside for too long.  I've just got to suck in a deep breath and take a running dive right in!

And you know what?  I'm looking forward to it!  This is super productivity November, by golly, and I'm going to celebrate!