Write here, write now!: Making the unusual usual (with respectful acknowle...

Write here, write now!: Making the unusual usual (with respectful acknowle...: Is it just me or do you feel it too? That perverse sense of 'thank goodness it's all over' (the 'it' being the festive s...

Making the unusual usual (with respectful acknowledgement to Lou Tice)

Is it just me or do you feel it too? That perverse sense of 'thank goodness it's all over' (the 'it' being the festive season). I say perverse because we've looked forward to it for months and planned for it with such eager anticipation and now...Now? 'Thank goodness'. 'How good to get back to normal.' Hmm. Depends what your normal is I suppose. My normal is not finding enough time to write, not earning as much as I'd like and not exploring all the wonderful opportunities the internet can offer me. Is that the kind of 'normal' I want to get back to? I think not.

Maybe then I (you too?) need to give myself something new to look forward to, something else to energise, excite  and motivate me. Maybe I need to create a new 'normal' - a normal of stretching myself to do all the things I say I want to do but never quite manage.

But...but then what? Ah well I'll have reached a new plateau won't I? And guess what? I'll have to set bigger, bolder goals because all that stuff I could never find time for, well it will just have become normal won't it?.

Thank goodness.