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I mentioned in the last two blogs that I’d written a couple of blogs while waiting for my youngest son Charlie to do his Tumble Tots session.
And had lost part of yesterday’s and all of Friday’s “Why it’s so hard to leave food on your plate” blog.
This one is written the next day while he’s in Rhythm Time.
The featured image of this blog shows me writing it with the door to where he’s doing the session in the background.
You can even see the other blogs in the background of my laptop screen if you look closely.
I feels a bit like when you’re in one of those halls of mirrors!
I do an amount of writing whilst waiting for the kids.
While they’re in lessons that I can’t watch (I’ll watch if I can) or while I’m waiting at school for them.
I’ll do some tonight while his older brothers are in trampolining – I’ll watch when they’re on and then write when they’re not.
It’s otherwise dead time.
Gives me a few hours a week of uninterrupted writing time.
Enables me to do other stuff at other times.
Having a system that helps making writing these blogs as easy as possible is essential.
If I had to fire up the laptop and start a new one from scratch every morning, I wouldn’t be approaching two thousand consecutive weekdays.
If you’ve read these for a while, you’ll know my system.
Ideas go into the app on my phone.
Fleshed out one either the phone, tablet or laptop at times likes these.
Changing category from ‘Blog in progress’ to ‘Blogs complete’ when they’re done.
Once per week picking out five, proof reading, adding the link (this one, go click it if you haven’t already –> myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting) and middle name, changing them to ‘Blogs ready to go’ and adding a day, getting them edited, uploaded and scheduled.
Systems and structure are often key.
They can feel boring and restrictive but are actually the exact opposite.
They get the stuff that needs to be done done.
As quickly and as easily as possible.
Creating freedom for the fun stuff.
And, perhaps, creating the ability to do said fun stuff.
The energy, stamina and body confidence to do what we want to do.
If we make all that stuff harder than it has to be, it stands a good chance of not getting done.
Schedule your workouts for when’s most convenient rather than some theoretically optimum combination and timing.
Prioritise doing them in the same way we do tonnes of less important stuff.
Reschedule at worst.
Put in whatever level of thinking ahead and planning makes making better food choices easier.
Makes them less effort and time rather than more.
If you were designing all this for a friend with the brief “make it all as easy as possible” what would that look like?
And use that a basis for what you then do 🙂
Much love,
Jon ‘HammerTime’ Hall
