Mark Brown
November 10, 2022
This blog hasn’t seen a lot of activity over the last handful of weeks. This post will address why that is. This won’t be long but it succinct and to the point.
The first reason why is because I am concentrating on getting a more responsible amount of sleep during the week. Typically my day starts about 3-4 am to get ready for work or will myself out of bed to do so. I work till anywhere from 2 pm to 4 pm, sometimes longer. I go directly from work to the garage to go lift. Those take between 2 and 3 hours because I do a high number of low rep sets and I’m not terribly efficient with the time between them. That will probably need to be addressed at a certain point. I will get home somewhere between 5:30 and 7 pm, sometimes later depending on what time I left work and what lifting session was done. Squat/deadlift and pressing sessions take longer than arms do. I will make something to eat in the evening when I get home from lifting. Sometimes this occurs after a quick stop at the grocery store on the way home. All told I don’t to truly resting until between 7 and 8. This covers my weekdays from Tuesday to Thursday. I have been mostly irresponsible with my sleeping patterns forever. It’s time to fix that.
That leaves Monday, Friday and the weekend. I do have more than enough time to put words on paper. That is the second reason for the inactivity on the blog. It’s part writer’s block and part failing to get started. I have a long list of ideas for essays for the blog but my discipline to just sit down and type has suffered for completely fixable reasons. The essays planned for the blog involve food, cooking, strength training and others that one might expect on other kinds of blogs. Writing even 4-7 page essays takes a pretty fair amount of time before editing, which I see I need to improve on every time I click on a post. Some essays can be completed in just a few hours where as others take weeks. I just need to plan my essays better and have them work in tandem as they have been since I started the blog. Writing 2500 words a week is very hard, but I’m finding ways to be lazy instead of keeping myself on task.
The writer’s block referenced above isn’t severe. It’s not like I am lacking ideas for essays. It’s more about writing the essays themselves. Constructing an essay with a coherent message is something I haven’t done consistently for 15 years so I am till I started the blog in August of last year. It’s not exactly something that can come back at a high level after such a layoff. It becomes even more challenging when trying to put together multiple essays into one cohesive message like I did with The Road to Discipline. I am planning on doing something similar to Road in 2023 in regards how to improve culture, be it in a business, gym or a personal life. I have some of it written currently, but I wan’t really get it finished before publishing it. I just have to make smarter choices on which essays to prioritize.
Keep the faith. I know I haven’t done much lately to earn that with the lack of essays coming from here, but they are coming. Thank you for staying with me as long as you have. It’s time to get back to what I was doing.
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