I’m not sure what I’ve been doing with my time, other than trying to improve my golf, and I’m pretty sure I could be getting a little more done now I’ve been off work for a while…
…So, without getting down on myself too much, I’m revisiting some advice on how to get started, and how to finish, projects that you really want to do.
Reading:
Currently I’m reading about, and preparing to try out, David Cain’s “block method” as explained in his book How to Do Things (the title page being the image for these weeknotes). I’ve been a reader of David’s blog, Raptitude, for many years. My favourite post, How to Get Yourself to Do Things, offers a great explanation of procrastination, overwhelm and the hellzone. These are things I have experienced many times and, now I’m trying to enjoy non-work life, they are things I’d like to avoid while also getting the things I really want to do done!
I’ve just finished The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow, which I thought was a great read. I’m not sure what’s next fiction-wise. I might end up re-reading something again.
Golf:
I had another lesson this week, which I haven’t yet written up here, because I’ve struggled to try out the things I learnt. In part, my lesson was about how to set myself up to have better sessions on the driving range, sessions that are helpful to improving my game rather than being demoralising.
After the lesson and on Thursday I found practice difficult for some reason. I seemed to have lost my rhythm a bit. Thursday I had planned to put the instructions from my coach into practice on the range, but when I found out I couldn’t even make good contact with my short shots I just concentrated on those and then some putting instead. I didn’t want another negative range experience like the last one (more on that at the link above)!
I played two competitions this week. My play was fine, but nowhere near as good as Friday last week. On Wednesday I couldn’t putt, but the rest of my golf was mostly ok. On Friday a lot of my shots into greens were not good at all, but I could putt. It all evened out into ok scores, but pretty unfulfilling feels.
I tripped over my drop foot on Friday just over half way around and bruised the heel of my left hand when I went down. That made the rest of the round quite difficult (although I managed once my brain realised it should dial down the pain because I was ignoring it). I’m resting my hand until Tuesday now, because its fine, but too uncomfortable to grip clubs properly (and therefore to practice all the things I’ve been taking the time to learn recently).
Exercise:
Physio went well. I didn’t do an extra weights session because of that bruised hand (which is a crap excuse, because there were lots of things I could have done still, but I just didn’t want to). I did some extra walking this week though.
Food:
We did ok this week. I cooked a nice prawn, tomato, chilli and sour cream sauce for pasta, which I’ll make again. I did chicken and vegetables in the oven too, which is always good (and so easy).
Garden:
There was a lack of activity in the garden. I think I’m trying to motivate myself to begin choosing and planting things now (which is most people’s favourite thing, but for some reason I’m finding it difficult to make plans let alone do the work)!
Adventure:
Nope. Unless you count a trip into work to catch up with people?!
Sewing:
Also nope.
Three ideas:
I think you can see why I’m trying to find ways to help motivate me to do a bit more with my time (see above).
- Keep practicing golf
- Organise the remaining appointment
- Do some planning and try out the block method on something I’d like to do
I organised one of the appointments I needed to organise (the most difficult one). I’ve still got another to sort. I went into work to meet-up with people and that went really well.
