Storytime

This may seem quite sexist but I fear it's true...women, especially mothers, always put everyone else first.  Especially their children. We will do virtually anything for them (..no matter their age) and regularly go without so they can have. Who remembers dishing up dinner, to find one extra child at home and then taking some off your plate so that child had a full meal? We've all done it. Time after time. And we don't begrudge it. We simply, and automatically, do it. It's like making promises. We keep them (well the majority of us). Yes I will do that, yes I'll help then, yes I'll meet you there, yes yes yes. A promise to a friend or family member is something we can't and won't break. We live up to them. So why is it so easy to break promises we make to ourselves? Tomorrow I'll go to the early gym class....I'll start that art's diploma....I'll start searching for a new job....I'll start on that novel. Yet these are ...

I have so many bad habits. Some I won't admit to (smirk) but others...oh dear....I'm afraid I'm the sort of person who, when they buy a packet of mixed fruit...eat all those fake cherries. Every last one. And they are not even real...merely fake sugary impersonators. I also am not the healthiest eater in the world. Most who know me well, know about me and vegetables. (sad story but true) I, alas, also have a sweet tooth. A very sweet tooth, which combined with my love of baking leads to trouble. I am also so very easily distracted. Sunny day...time to garden. Windy day...time to garden. Cold and grey day...you get the idea. I tell myself that gardening is very good exercise..that it brings us one with nature. That it is good for body and soul. And indeed it is...it's also a great tool to use when I SHOULD be doing something else. I also enjoy my crafting, and when I get into it, I don't stop. Too eager to see the end result. Now, n...

No I'm not talking deadline or death....or debutante or even dodgy. My dreaded D word is discipline. One dictionary (another D word, and this one I do like) gives the definition (another) as_ The practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behaviour, using punishment to correct disobedience.  My thesaurus offers up drill, exercise, method, practice, regimen, regulation, training, control. It also goes on to talk about chastisement, correction and punishment. Frankly I'd rather without the punishment but I'm a great one for putting things off.  Don't feel like doing it today, I'll do it tomorrow. Or next week. Or April. I think lack of discipline goes hand in hand with procrastination. Settle down at the computer, ready to work on that short story when....oh look...shiny thing on the internet. Yes there are ways and means. Turn off the internet. Avoid all emails, internet trawling and the wormhole of Facebook until it is earned. By writ...