January Assessment

I've decided to check in on how 2013 is going, mostly because it's the last day of January and I've finally made my resolution. 2013 is going to be all about getting my life under control. Living in chaos and filth is getting a little old, so I'm establishing! good! habits!

In order to work on my self motivation, I've joined the gym (and I've already gone three times since I joined last week! woohoo!). From what I've read, a big problem you run into with being self employed is sleeping. With no one demanding you wake up at a certain time, sleeping in becomes a siren call of eternal procrastination.

The gym is going to be a key piece of my resistance strategy. See, I'll need to get up early enough to complete my gym routine. I've always found that working out in the morning makes me more awake for the rest of the day. After going to the gym I'll be so filled with energy I'll be able to make myself work instead of procrastinate. (If you are in doubt that this actually works, let me just say that when I got back from the gym last night I cleaned the entire apartment.)

Cleaning is actually the second pincer of this metaphorically confused strategy. Getting my life in order means getting my apartment in order, so I'm taking up the fly lady baby steps. Tomorrow I will be shining my sink. Mostly I'm motivating myself to do this part with vague promises about how I'll need these skills when I get a house. You see, owning my own house is a dearly held dream of mine. Unfortunately, there seems to be an unthoughtful consensus that I will fail at keeping a house due to my messy, dissolute ways. Therefore I'm going to habit myself into building the skill set and motivation I'll need in order to have the BEST HOUSE EVER.

On a writing note, I've succeeded at my goal to write a short story this month (the prequel to Junk Squad totally counts, okay?) and finished the Broken Hearts edits on schedule. I failed utterly at writing any poetry and/or getting much further on Junk Squad. Oh well. There's always February.

Thereto and therefore, I am declaring January to be a slightly echoey success.