Follow Through and Complete What You Start

I woke up thinking about habits today, having slept well last night, and consequently am enjoying a peaceful, productive day.  It has bothered me for months that I have not made the time to post to this blog, so the need to revisit and add an entry has been pressing.  

The title bouncing around in my head for months was "Unfulfilled Promises".  A useful title that could go any number of directions.  What it refers to is unfulfilled promises I made in my first few entries.

My recollection is that a lack of caffeine headache led me to research caffeine withdrawals.  I stumbled on an exciting study that had been conducted at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, that I wanted to tell you about.  Then I started reading a book titled Starbucked, and had hoped to share some of those insights in greater depth.

My plan was to use this blog, my first, as a training tool.  I'm one of those writers who could stand to get into the habit of writing every day.  That got me thinking about procrastination, that act of putting something off to yet another time - emphasis on the yet, as I kept doing it over and over.  Honestly,  I don't think it was that I procrastinated so much as I was managing multiple priorities.  

I recall a religious passage from some years ago stating that sometimes we had to choose between the important and the most important.  That makes sense to me.  My grander scheme had not yet elevated my Vox blog to most important.  I had gone from Slow Mo to Fast Forward, and while loving every minute, naturally some things fell by the wayside.

Lately, I have had the good fortune of nearly three weeks of unstructured days. This respite carries some responsibility, but mostly it is offering me the time to engage in some labor intensive, time consuming online learning tasks. I've been trying out this daily writing habit, in the hopes of keeping it going.

In the spirit of completion, I will stop now and pick up again, hopefully, tomorrow.