Working on quality

Five stars means quality? Sure, I’ll allow it.

Today’s Log:

• I took the late train today. Unfortunately, the train itself was running late, meaning that I showed up to work even later than I expected.

• Ate a bunch of girl scout cookies including caramel delites, peanut butter patties, and a whole ream of peanut butter sandwiches. I definitely have a thing for peanut butter.

• Started reading a book on storytelling. I’m only about 10 pages in so I can’t say for sure, but I think it’s a good primer on storytelling in a business setting. Maybe I can pick up some pointers for my blog posts. If I do, I’ll give it a shout-out here.

• I’m going to make an effort to not eat out for the rest of the week. I’m curious to see how much money I can save. I figure at least $60 a week if I am consistent about it.

Extra Thoughts

I want to focus writing quality posts as I’ve stated before. It feels that the last few entries were stale. I know it’s because I’ve suppressed my emotions. It’s like I wrote my recent entries while buzzed AND sleep deprived. My heart and my mind were a foggy mess. I didn’t have the energy to be vulnerable and evoke any of my fears or hopes, so the writing suffered

But I also got the work done. Trying takes time. It took me 20 minutes just to write that last paragraph. I passed through 5 orange county cities writing it out!

I wanted to avoid having to spend a lot of effort for very little output, especially not at this stage in my writing. That’s what killed the joy of writing in the first place. I wanted to focus on output. And I succeeded.

Now I feel ready to work on quality. Ultimately, that means I have to learn to take my time, to really pay attention to the underlying emotions that drive my thoughts and report on it with enough detail to evoke but not bog down the work. This is a skill that I look forward to mastering.