September 16, 2021
Things I know to be true today:
- Preparing to interview for a new role even at a company you’re already with sucks as much as preparing to interview as a new hire.
- Sometimes you have to stay up late to get things done because your procrastination skills kick into high gear when faced with things you don’t want to do (see Habits I need to kick).
- Rainy afternoons are good for keeping you inside and forcing you to do things you don’t want to do.
- I’d much rather be staring at purple daisies than at a computer screen.
Habits I need to kick
- Trolling the comments section of the online Washington Post to avoid preparing for an interview.
- Eating more chocolate than you should even though it’s National Choose Your Chocolate Day and you claim you must honor it.
- Contemplating giving up tomorrow’s yoga even though you need self-care because you think you’ll spend that time actually preparing for that interview when, if you decide to forgo yoga, you would really use that time to sleep in.
- Allowing your little demons to tell you you aren’t good enough for the new role.
- Procrastinating (so powerful it deserves a second callout).
Its midnight here and I just stayed up to finishing reading your book Plant trees Carry sheep. Thank you thank you thank you! I loved it, and the last pages really spoke to me in my current situations. I am from england now living in america & an author myself of a book revolving around sheep haha! Just amazing how I was lead to this & how it has helped my life. <3
Jackie, thank you so much for your lovely words. I’m so grateful for readers who get something out of this story, since this is my goal–to reach people’s inner life. Let me know when you’re book is published; I’d love to buy it.
Oh that would be lovely thank you! Such an honor. It is called “Letters to the lost ones” by Jackie Scott, on amazon. I told my nan in England how I enjoyed it and she’s reading Plant Trees Carry Sheep now, she’ll love recognizing some of the towns 🙂
The other day we had some work to do in the yard while it was raining and all I could think was “at least there’s not soays” haha! Thank you again!
Just ordered it! I’ll leave a review for you after I’m finished.
Oh that devil — PROCRASTINATION — haunts me as well…to this day! I’m on my computer going down my email list instead of creatively photographing a crapload of stuff to be sold online! But my arthritic feet ache, from my weekly walk with friend, Val, and running around doing errands, that I can’t stand up a minute longer.
Must run in the family!