In search of commitment

The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating – in work, in play, in love.  The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around like rational hesitation.  To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life. -- Anne Morris, a New York Starbucks customer

I think I once shared this quote -- which is from a Starbucks coffee cup -- in my early days at LJ, but I'm not quite committed enough to searching for it in the archives to see what I said about it then.  :-D  But I got to thinking about it over the weekend as I came to the conclusion that I need to commit myself to having a better schedule.

I need a schedule because I'm not getting many things done; without a schedule, it's too easy to rationalize my time away and do something that doesn't, in the end, get me very far along in what I want to accomplish with my life.  Not that there's anything wrong with what I spend my time on, I just need to balance it properly, and I think a schedule will help me with that.  While I enjoy a good care-free day, I also enjoy having structure and boundaries, and I do seem to do better at commiting myself to a task when it is before me as part of a list or a schedule.

So, today I am committing myself to getting committed.  ;-)  I shall come up with my schedule, and commit myself to it so I can stop being critical of my lack of accomplishment.

In other news -- I had a good weekend.  I didn't have to shovel snow, the sun came out on Sunday, I got lots of writing ideas (probably too many to deal with unless I get a schedule that includes time for writing amidst the other tasks that need scheduling!), and even did some writing.  I finally got through on the phone to kimbys_place -- after some weird phone tag where we kept leaving each other voicemails while we were actually on the phone with each other, but kept disconnecting ourselves!  We had a nice visit and I feel happy to have finally heard her cheerful voice again!

On a less happy note, my DS is having a sudden computer fiasco, so I must go deal with that -- then I shall come up with my schedule.