Discipline

Sunset from my Backyard

If you’re like me, that word instantly has me grinding my back teeth and digging in my heels, braced to rebel.   I think most of us have our rebellious sides, don’t we?  {Go ahead.  In the recesses of your cubbies, you can agree with me.}  The problem/solution is that those of us who have escaped the corporate cube farms have gloried in the winds of freedom and have a darned hard time getting down to work when we don’t wanna.

After a long, hot summer that would melt off your eyebrows, we’ve had several beautifully moderate days in a row.   Long walks, poking at the dried-up weeds in my wilted flower beds and daydreams about hammocks have seriously cut into my work hours.

The manuscript that I am so excited about glares at me from the corner of my desk, nagging that I should get at least a few pages edited.  Websites awaiting enhancements send messages via email that they are ready to be updated.  Bank accounts cry out for more, more, more more when all I want to do is less, less, less.

Discipline.  That word brings visions of black-robed nuns with hard plastic rulers to mind.  (Yes, I have felt the bite in my younger days.)  Surely, there’s a compromise somewhere.

Maybe I’ll figure it out while I take my nap.  If I only had a hammock…..

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