Day 2 - Failure

One day into this challenge and I’ve already failed. There is no point in beating myself up for failing, just learn from my mistakes and continue. so what are the top three Lessons I take from this failure?

Lesson 1 ) Timing - don’t start time consumptive tasks when you are time constrained. Yesterday was Valentines day and My pregnant wife and I where taking take of our son and one of his friends (that slept over so her parents could enjoy Valentines day) . As a lot of people know taking care of two toddlers isn’t exactly easy, I was going to write this more or less at this time , but by the time 9 o clock rolled around I just didn’t have the mental capacity do write anything .( the computer was off and I promptly feel asleep)

Lesson 2) Do the job that’s in front of you- I had a busy day, every day is a busy day but there is always the opportunity to procrastinate a little here and there. procrastinate is the wrong word; there is always an opportunity to take a breather , re-energise and continue to work. during one of these breaks, I could have written something , even an outline or a paragraph. anything is better than nothing. no journey starts at the destination.

Lesson 3) Don’t give up! - it’s very easy to get discouraged when suffering a set back right at the beginning of anything. I will admit to waking up feeling down on myself for not writing yesterday , I wanted to give up o this whole challenge thing (since I already failed, whats the point?) . So I spent some introspective moments dusting myself off and remembering why I’m doing this in the first place, I’m not doing this to win a prize, I’m not doing this as penance for something, I’m not doing this to challenge myself to achieve new heights; I’m doing this to practise writing, I need to become better, the only way to do it , is to write more.

Welp, that’s it for today, tomorrow I’ll probably draft some technical documentation which I’ve been running away from for a couple of months now. so I wrote this in about 45 minutes and spent zero time editing (besides right-clicking to fix some words) .

Up and at them,

Guy!