I celebrated my birthday last week. It was the birthday by which I had originally planned to finish all 68 of my blog posts. I've moved the goalposts, as they say. I'm now hoping to have all 68 done by the end of the year. It's doable.
It isn't that I lack discipline. I thought I lacked discipline for a long time, but one of the gifts of being an older woman is that we come to understand ourselves more deeply.
The truth is, I don't lack discipline. I simply don't write on demand. I prefer to write when I have something to say and the time to get my thoughts organized.
Last week I launched a new workshop, and I was busy writing the content for it. Not writing these microblog posts was a choice, not avoidance.
I don't think I need to explain that to you as a defence of my absence. I simply offer this insight in the hope that you, too, might reframe your own self-judgment with a little more kindness.
If you didn't reach a goal, instead of beating yourself up about it, look for the reason you put your time elsewhere. I wonder if you'll find the gold there?