“It’s been a long time, I shouldn’t have left you…” ~Eric B. & Rakim/I Know You Got Soul

It’s been over a month since my last post.  When I first started this blog, it was my goal to post once a week. Some may say that is an ambitious goal for a new blogger who’s trying to find her niche in the blogosphere abyss.  But for me it made sense.  I was in a new relationship with this blog, so everything was fresh and exciting; I just couldn’t stay away from the keyboard.  Well, that was back in July when I was enjoying my summer vacation.  That was back when I was carefree.  I would get up, free up some space on my DVR, go to the gym, pull out my Pinterest culinary skills and work on my blog all at my leisure.  That was when I had no place to be at any particular time.

All of that changed when I had to go to a week long conference for work at the end of July that marked the official end of my summer vacation.  After that, I had to start getting up earlier in the morning to make my breakfast, pack my lunch and be sure that I tossed socks into my gym bag.  Everything I had been doing so casually for weeks was starting to stress me out.  If I didn’t pack my lunch, I may end up having an unplanned cheat meal.  If I didn’t have everything in my gym bag, my plan to workout right after work would become derailed because I’d have to go back home to get a sports bra or stop at the store to grab a pair of socks.  In the midst of the mild hustle and bustle that I was getting back to, I didn’t plan to blog.  Stop; that’s a lie.  I didn’t follow through with my plan to blog.  I did sit down with my planner every week to pencil in what I needed to accomplish for the week, and publishing a new post was always a goal.   However, committing to the plan became a totally different beast.  Committing to this blog is like someone who is just getting back into the gym or making strides to eat better.  It takes true discipline.  There is discipline needed to sit down at a laptop for at least thirty minutes per day (goal) and write without being distracted by anything or anyone.  Discipline to maximize the hours that I do have in my day in order to get things done, and because I am a dreamer and goal setter there are a lot of things that I want and need to get done to take me to the next level in life.  I just have to manage my time better in order to do so.

I heard a rumor that I have as many hours in the day as Beyonce.  I call that bull$!*#.  In theory, I do have the same 24 hours in a day as Mrs. Carter.  She has not found a way to slow down the space-time continuum.  However, there’s a lot of stuff that I have to do that she does not such as drive, do laundry, wash dishes/load the dishwasher, meal prep, vacuum, make the bed, grocery shop, clean the kitchen & bathroom, get to the gym, spend nine hours a day M-F working for someone else.  Shall I go on.  I mean the fact that she can be productive while she rides in a car is a dream.  Maybe I should start taking an Uber everywhere…nah (side note: I only Uber with other folks.  NEVER Uber alone!!!)  My point is that unless you have hired a service for all of the mundane tasks of life above, we really do not have as many hours in the day as Beyonce.  Therefore, we normal folk have to figure out how to plan and manage our time effectively in order to accomplish our goals and get sh*t done.  Unfortunately that may mean I won’t catch up on Game of Thrones until next month or Christmas Break.  I’m sure Beyonce is not binge watching anything in her 24 hour day.  If she is, I may have to contact NASA because she might be out here with Superman hacking into the space-time continuum.

~Selah