Free Time Doesn’t Help

Hi friends! The small, mobile ones are back in school and have been for the last week. I’m getting so much done!

She says sarcastically.

(In case you’re wondering about the apron, I did eventually get it done, but I made it way too big somehow so it’s essentially useless. Sigh.)

I was so looking forward to school starting. I was going to do so much! Write more, draw more, exercise more. Play video games. Watch TV shows!

Have I done those things?

Well, I have watched an entire season of Brooklyn 99. But mostly I’ve done…not really sure, to be honest. Some stuff around the house that needed doing. But otherwise…

???

(I would put the shrug emoji there but I don’t know how.)

Isn’t it weird, how you look forward to free time? Like, I may not be getting as much done now as I want to, but it’s okay, because next week I’ll get lots done, or next month I’ll get lots done, or whenever, then I’ll be able to be productive.

But then the free time comes and it’s so hard to actually focus on what you were planning to do.

There’s probably some sort of professional psychology term for that. But I do know that they say that the more stuff you have to do, the more productive you are. That you fill the time you have with the things you have to do.

Yet it’s so weird that you can have five hours to do one thing, and then not do that one thing.

(You can watch a lot of B99 in five hours, just saying.)

In this case, though, it’s almost like a complete adjustment is needed. Instead of getting up early and working, I need to figure out a way to transfer what I would have done then to the rest of my day. And then move on to the next productive thing afterwards instead of patting myself on the back.

I’d say give me tips, but I know a lot of them. Knowing them and following them are two different things, after all.

Wish me luck, though! Maybe I’ll figure this thing out yet.