Getting Started

Two days ago, I started out with a list of very general objectives that I saw as being part of getting to seventy.

If I am to make any headway on these, I need to sort out where I am now and also figure out more precisely where I want to be in January.

Yesterday, I got more than a bit sidetracked by the mechanics of setting up a blog.That is going to be the case for a while longer.

But even so, and even without getting too specific about my objectives, I feel I have made a few baby steps towards one of them (which was to write more) and a much bigger step towards a more confident me.

Hey, I figured out a whole lot of stuff yesterday without resorting to the household geeks!

Back to those objectives.

One was to write more.

Over the years, I have intermittently kept a journal and I have also done a lot of writing for a couple of volunteer organizations. So writing isn't something I don't do, but I want to make more of it.

I want, most days, to write at least a short journal entry, and, of course, I have made the commitment to write here.

What worries me, though, is that I have gotten slack about the volunteer writing, too often missing deadlines or having to turn in sloppy work to meet them.It's true: some of the writing is not very creative -- things like minutes of meetings -- but some is quite rewarding.

So, what is the problem? What is the solution?

I'll be thinking about this over the next day and writing about it in the morning. But what do you think? I'd love you to comment.