Today and writing in Thoughts, wishes and things

Well, today started off well when I got up at 6:30am without my alarm. I actually woke up at 4:30am too but luckily was able to get back to sleep after that. So anyway, a good start to the day. I’m on my 2nd load of laundry for the day, plus have run an errand already and cleaned a toilet so I guess that’s progress even though it doesn’t always feel like it at the time. I guess it feels like there’s always too much to do and not enough time to do it in.

I like that this is a good site to practice writing on. There’s other sites too but some of them feel too formal, like Medium, so I never made an account there. It’s like everything on Medium is supposed to be an article or practically a work of art, whereas by contrast I just want to express myself and my daily life without worrying about keywords and stuff like that.

Anyway, I still need to do a lot more cleaning today. I try to keep my cleaning to weekdays so that I can have the weekends be freer (well, free of cleaning at least - I still wind up doing laundry on the weekends sometimes!) So this means that Mondays can be kinda busy dealing with everything that’s built up over the weekend. In this case I didn’t do laundry on the weekend which is why I’ve got so much of it to do today.

Back to talking about writing (by coincidence I’ve done 1 paragraph on cleaning, one on writing, another on cleaning, and back to writing again). I would love it if there was a word count here going as-you-type, I mean it would be great even if it was a premium feature. I’d like to aim for a certain number of words per day, sorta like people who do a certain number of steps per day, you know? I read this book that said the biggest predictor of improving a skill is the amount of time spent on deliberate practice - let me look up the book on GoodReads and post the link here. It’s Talent is Overrated: What separates world-class performers from everybody else by Geoff Colvin. I’d definitely recommend this book to anyone, it’s definitely very motivational.