How has your week been? I’m wondering, how do you get through a deadline? Power through? Agonize until completion? Ignore until you can’t? I am on one of my last book deadlines and I’m spending a good amount of time thinking about my habits when I know a deadline is approaching. Deadlines make me uncomfortable. But they almost always force me to Get Over Myself, and hold less judgment of myself.
Instead of agonizing, I considered the discomfort and that discomfort gave me room to think about everything I am doing and did this week. So much of what I need to do is already here, spinning on top of my head. I just need the gift of time. Or rather, I NEED TO MAKE THE TIME. I’m looking forward to the rest of the week where writing a letter to you, and finishing off a few pages will be all that I undertake.
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