A slight twist to our days can make a big difference

It’s been 1 month and ~15 days since I’ve written my last blog post. According to what I’ve promised to myself some months ago, I should have written two additional blog posts by now, and I didn’t.

This doesn’t seem to be a big deal. And actually, it isn’t — even though I really love to write here, and even though I want that you, reader of this blog, to know that you can count on a post very ~15 days, the truth is that blogging isn’t my life’s biggest priority.

So, when things go wary — when there’s an increase of work, or other life issues come to the fore — I’m lead to decide what should be left back. And blogging, naturally, is one of those that need to be left behind.

That’s reasonable for most people like me because, even though it’s always nice to see a good number of readers flowing into your blog, I only write for the pleasure. And, on contrary to some people who write, my income doesn’t come from this blog (aka, I do not depend on this blog to eat a good steak).

But why am I talking all about this? Because this lead me to realise, again, that there’s so much months where you can keep up your motivation without wearing out. And I reached that point — not only did my writings have decreased, but my workout routine, radio practices, and toastmasters speeches also also did in some way.

From year and year again I’ve noticed that there’s a certain amount of months where I’m able run the same routine with a big smile in my face — around four or five. After those, I’ll start becoming tired and needing a change.

But I’m not talking about a drastic one. I’m talking about giving a little twist to our daily lives, like: choosing a different sport to play or a new gym routine, start working from a different place and/or schedule, to try new extra activities and stop the old ones, and even start watching a new set of good movies (Stanley Kubrick’s may be next. Other suggestions?). That has been usually enough to give me an extra battery to the following months, sometimes together with a trip somewhere.

I’ll do an extra push for this month — where I’m specially dedicated to finish some projects and finals for my Master thesis — to still deliver what I promised to myself for these months. Then I’ll figure out what twist I should give to my days. As I always do, after a few great days of reflection in the woods.