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Can I Get Over My Blogging Blues?
OK so over the last month or so I have had a hard time making myself write a post. I have started several posts only to get distracted, I then leave the post and find reasons not to finish it. It’s not like I’ve fallen off the “{Better Next Year” wagon.I’m still moving forward and actually doing well! For example, my weight has been fluctuating right around my 2018 goal weight since October. I have been eating well since then also.
I also have been running fairly consistently through the winter and my mile per minute pace has been its fastest in years. Likewise in my non-running days my workouts are still pretty strong. I have also been doing a nightly yoga routine that as gotten rid of a few minor aches and pains.
Additionally I have read twelve books so far in 2019. So I am, according to Goodreads, on pace to reach my goal of 72 books.
I have also listened to a lot of good music. Just last week my wife and went to see Tom Paxton and the Don Juans at the Sellersville Theater. The concert tickets were a Christmas present from my wife. But yet like all of the over I haven’t written about it!!
Why can’t I make myself write new posts?
So why??? Why can’t I make myself write new posts! I think a major reason is I don’t think anyone reads what I write so why waste my time when I could be doing something more constructive.
When I first started blogging the main purpose of the blog was to help keep me sane. It was 2010 and I was going through a rough patch. My mother was in a nursing home and her Parkinson’s medications were keeping her pretty wacked out! In addition, my work life was in turmoil, too!
. In July of 2009 my bosses of 29 years 11 months sold their business. While things didn’t change much initially it didn’t take long for changes to happen. Within two years my work load shrank to the point I was doing baby work just to keep me busy and with four years I was laid off and only working when needed. And by the fall of 2014 I retired early.
Anyway listening to music, reading and writing about what I read and heard helped me get through those years. Now though my life is moving along fairly well and that need to write and to feel that I am accomplishing something is not as strong. Consequently, I’ve been trying to think about new directions for this blog. As of today I have not come up with anything!
While I haven’t been posting about it, over the last few days I have been listening to less new music and more of the albums that are already on my iPod. The soundtracks for my nightly yoga routine have included albums from: Peter Kater and R. Carlos Nakai, Coyote Oldman and Deuter. Maybe that’s a direction I’ll take more old music less new music.
Maybe more health, wellness and happiness. How about more books less music. More music less books?? What do you think?
Ok so now I’m going to sit back, listen to “All Souls Waltz” form Peter Kater and R Carlos Nakai’s album Honorable Sky, while I wait for all the sage advice from my readers!
