I bought a course under this name from DailyOm years ago.
As I often do with these things, I started out with the best of intentions. I kept a journal.
It lasted 3 days. Which is longer than quite a lot of them, to be fair.
Over the years, I’ve started and abandoned so many different hobbies. I’ve started projects. Signed up to swaps. Begun patterns. Commenced manuscripts.
I’m really, really good at ideas.
I’m really not very good at completer finishing.
I’m waiting on the results of an assessment for ADHD. It may or may not go some way to explaining my mindset. Regardless of the results (and I really hope they do say ADHD, because it turns out there’s huge amounts of help and support out there for that, which there isn’t for the autism diagnosis I picked up ten or so years ago) I need to make changes.
Around a year ago my long term relationship fell apart. I daresay my approach to life and stuff had something to do with it, but the root cause was lack of communication, on both our parts. It took a while, but in April me and the kids moved somewhere new. And I’ve spent the rest of the year trying to get my life in order.
I have decluttered So. Much. Stuff.
And yet, there’s still so much stuff to go.
Today I had a bit of a break through, and dropped off 3 boxes of Leslie Charteris Saint books at the Oxfam bookshop I used to help run. (I so loved running a bookshop. It broke my heart more than a little when I didn’t get to manage the bookshop in Bury, after running the standard shop there through a pandemic, because of the chronic pain I’m now experiencing in my hands. More on that later I daresay.)
Anyways, the Saint books are gone. There’s still so much stuff to go. I was going to start up a Substack newsletter where I was going to write about trying to untangle my brain, but there’s more than a little kerfuffle across teh internets at the moment about their (lack of) content moderation, so I decided I might as well use this existing and somewhat neglected blog of mine.
The point of using Substack though was to build towards monetisation, as the chronic pain (EDS in case you’re wondering) means that the whole going out to work is somewhat challenging, while writing is feasible. So in the meantime, while I figure all of that out, there should be a Kofi button floating around (on desktop it’s down in the bottom left corner), and if you feel like contributing, that would be lovely.
Anyone got any tips on, well, anything that I’ve mentioned?
Happy Solstice btw.
