I just thought that while I had a spare moment, I would check in with an update since Mojo MIA. I think it is safe to say that it's back. Until I wrote that post, I was slowly working my way to productivity, but like I said, it was slow. After I laid out all of my spinning thoughts in that post, I feel like I've been able to move on with my work.
Instead of being apathetic about what I know I have to do, I've been getting stuff done. Lots of stuff! Press releases, blog post entries, search engine optimized website content. Today I put in a 12 hour work day! I've been busy!
Once I focus my attention on writing another article for The Drummer and get some better content on my website, I'll be as on track as I want to be.... to start. Then it's time to start kicking my motivation into high gear!
Anyways, if anyone is reading this, expect to see more posts in the future. I'm working on one right now that might be up as early as tomorrow!
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Mojo MIA
Ugh... Okay, so I haven't exactly been on the ball lately. I haven't had many posts in recent months: 2 in June, 1 in July, and I entirely missed August. I guess if I wanted to I could lie to myself and post-date an entry, but what exactly would that prove? Not a damn thing.
As the title suggests, I feel like I've lost my mojo, my groove, my inspiration, my innovation. A series of events has really messed with my inner equilibrium over a period of time, starting obviously enough in June. Here they are, in order, laid out for my brain to sort through:
10. Week-long vacation in Ohio to visit family (CRAZY!)
9. Favorite feline diagnosed with lymphoma (He is doing great on his chemo!)
8. Bridesmaid in a wedding (I might just get married in Vegas)
7. Star Wars Exhibit Visit (Meh)
6. Minnesota Renaissance Festival (Twice!)
5. Minnesota Garlic Festival (I wrote an article about it to be published in The Drummer!)
4. Visitations from Out-of-State friends (Love You, Z!)
3. High School Friends re-union (no reason to attend my real 10-year high school re-union now, which happens in 3 weeks!)
2. iQualifyNow.com suspended its article writing program (win/lose: I lost an account, but now I have more time to try advancing myself)
And the #1 thing which has messed with my mojo more than anything else?
1. Calvin, our new Siberian Husky puppy, who just turned 5 months old yesterday.
I never said that all of these things were bad, in fact, most of these things were very, very good and in many cases, lots and lots of fun. But I am a home-body. I think I did more out-of-my-home activities this summer than I have in a while.
Plus, my pets are very important to me. I'm pretty sure that I'm not going to have any children, so as far as I'm concerned, they're my kids. Krillin's diagnosis of lymphoma came as a huge, traumatic shock. Then, my boyfriend falling in love with a husky that was headed for the pound completely turned our house upside-down. Who am I to say no, though? I'm a sucker for a good pet-related sob-story.
Needless to say, I've been distracted so writing and work have been low on my priorities. Because I've been completely off of my schedule, I haven't been able to concentrate. I've been doing enough to make sure ends are met and my kitty could get his chemo, but I haven't done a thing all summer to advance my career. In fact, because iQualifyNow suspended their program, I'm down a client compared to when I started in June.
Thankfully, my social life is slowing down a little bit, not that I didn't totally deserve to take a mental vacation for a while for as hard as I've been working for the past few years. In the last two weeks, I've been pulling myself back together. This blog post is part of my recovery, in fact! Laying it all out here in a sort-of journal format has helped me put in writing what I have been unable to place my finger on for the past few months.
I have to get it together, anyway! With the new husky, our house is super-cramped. We rent and want to take advantage of low real estate price, low interest rates, the abundance of homes on the market, and new first-time home buyer programs. I have to get my butt in gear to get my financial house in order and prepare myself to enter a new stage in life by June 30th next year: Home Ownership. Working up some new clients and making more money could really help with that!
Anyways, time to wrap this up. Today, I rededicate myself to this blog, a new webpage I'm creating for myself, and shortly there-after, an industry-related blog to hopefully drum up some more interest in my writing. Not this kind of writing, but something more related to my industry. I've got a few irons in the fire right now which I will probably cross post to here once I have them going.
If anyone is reading this, thanks for listening!
As the title suggests, I feel like I've lost my mojo, my groove, my inspiration, my innovation. A series of events has really messed with my inner equilibrium over a period of time, starting obviously enough in June. Here they are, in order, laid out for my brain to sort through:
10. Week-long vacation in Ohio to visit family (CRAZY!)
9. Favorite feline diagnosed with lymphoma (He is doing great on his chemo!)
8. Bridesmaid in a wedding (I might just get married in Vegas)
7. Star Wars Exhibit Visit (Meh)
6. Minnesota Renaissance Festival (Twice!)
5. Minnesota Garlic Festival (I wrote an article about it to be published in The Drummer!)
4. Visitations from Out-of-State friends (Love You, Z!)
3. High School Friends re-union (no reason to attend my real 10-year high school re-union now, which happens in 3 weeks!)
2. iQualifyNow.com suspended its article writing program (win/lose: I lost an account, but now I have more time to try advancing myself)
And the #1 thing which has messed with my mojo more than anything else?
1. Calvin, our new Siberian Husky puppy, who just turned 5 months old yesterday.
I never said that all of these things were bad, in fact, most of these things were very, very good and in many cases, lots and lots of fun. But I am a home-body. I think I did more out-of-my-home activities this summer than I have in a while.
Plus, my pets are very important to me. I'm pretty sure that I'm not going to have any children, so as far as I'm concerned, they're my kids. Krillin's diagnosis of lymphoma came as a huge, traumatic shock. Then, my boyfriend falling in love with a husky that was headed for the pound completely turned our house upside-down. Who am I to say no, though? I'm a sucker for a good pet-related sob-story.
Needless to say, I've been distracted so writing and work have been low on my priorities. Because I've been completely off of my schedule, I haven't been able to concentrate. I've been doing enough to make sure ends are met and my kitty could get his chemo, but I haven't done a thing all summer to advance my career. In fact, because iQualifyNow suspended their program, I'm down a client compared to when I started in June.
Thankfully, my social life is slowing down a little bit, not that I didn't totally deserve to take a mental vacation for a while for as hard as I've been working for the past few years. In the last two weeks, I've been pulling myself back together. This blog post is part of my recovery, in fact! Laying it all out here in a sort-of journal format has helped me put in writing what I have been unable to place my finger on for the past few months.
I have to get it together, anyway! With the new husky, our house is super-cramped. We rent and want to take advantage of low real estate price, low interest rates, the abundance of homes on the market, and new first-time home buyer programs. I have to get my butt in gear to get my financial house in order and prepare myself to enter a new stage in life by June 30th next year: Home Ownership. Working up some new clients and making more money could really help with that!
Anyways, time to wrap this up. Today, I rededicate myself to this blog, a new webpage I'm creating for myself, and shortly there-after, an industry-related blog to hopefully drum up some more interest in my writing. Not this kind of writing, but something more related to my industry. I've got a few irons in the fire right now which I will probably cross post to here once I have them going.
If anyone is reading this, thanks for listening!
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