This whole "first waffles" thing was EXACTLY what I needed to read today! I find myself with a whole lot of free time today, a very rare and very precious occurrence, and I had high hopes for the hours: work on my manuscript, get started on some lesson plans for next year--relatively big, time-consuming, intellectual things like that. But here it is, almost 4pm, and I have yet to do either. Why? Because I felt paralyzed all day by the enormity of both goals...because I felt like they had to be DONE and PERFECT or it wasn't worth my time. But now, I'm walking away to make a first waffle or two...
(And thanks for the shout-out! I, too, always feel amazed at the various hats we all manage to fit in our closets and, somehow, also on our heads.)
Oh! I've SO been there before! I think I once had some ambitious goal to basically write a whole novel on my winter break and then did nothing because there was no way I could meet the goal. I'm glad the waffles helped!
This whole "first waffles" thing was EXACTLY what I needed to read today! I find myself with a whole lot of free time today, a very rare and very precious occurrence, and I had high hopes for the hours: work on my manuscript, get started on some lesson plans for next year--relatively big, time-consuming, intellectual things like that. But here it is, almost 4pm, and I have yet to do either. Why? Because I felt paralyzed all day by the enormity of both goals...because I felt like they had to be DONE and PERFECT or it wasn't worth my time. But now, I'm walking away to make a first waffle or two...
(And thanks for the shout-out! I, too, always feel amazed at the various hats we all manage to fit in our closets and, somehow, also on our heads.)
Oh! I've SO been there before! I think I once had some ambitious goal to basically write a whole novel on my winter break and then did nothing because there was no way I could meet the goal. I'm glad the waffles helped!