This post was written last week and as the title suggests, things did not work out as planned.
Last week, after reading Wendy Piersall’s Monday Motivations and making my commitments for the next 24 hours:
The purpose of these Monday Motivation are to set yourself a GDT list for the day, that you then give yourself a reward if you complete this and at the same time impose a penalty if you don’t do what you say you are going to do.
This was what I wrote on Wednesday last week: (Wendy was a little late last week)
- Today I will set my goals for my blog for September-
- I will start on my new template for my blog.
- I will write 3 posts as I, will be away for 3 days and committed by John Chow’s site to post every day for the next 20 days.
If I don?t get this done I will join Kiva and donate $25- I will join Kiva anyway, Thanks for mentioning it Wendy.
Notice I forgot the reward- I won’t do that this week. The importance of having something to look forward to.
The search for a new template began, and I am still undecided
There I was on Thursday at the Gold Coast Airport, plane delayed and working out what I did to attract the many challenges I had faced today.
I did get 2 posts ready for being away, not three I specified and I noticed myself watching myself as I lost the plot. Time for a meditation to get refocused and get back on track. – Following a two hour delay on the planes take off I finally got to Sydney The next day when I logged into my account, I found only one post had been uploaded. I distinctly remember uploading 2 from Live Writer. Oh well I thought at the time I will do something about Sydney. There may even be fireworks as this was the Apec weekend and there was. We had a ringside view from where we were staying.
I must have been ready for a little holiday. The first morning I slept in until 8 am – almost unheard of, so the body thought this is great, let’s go into holiday mode.Well that was what happened- hence a gap in the posting schedule.
I now know that I will start writing extra posts so that during my next two trips in October and November I will be able to relax. Now off to plan for the week.