This was the first day in the long time that the only thing I’ve written was the blog. That may be a point to consider for me. Sometimes irrelevant details get in the way of the whole picture and when the problems flare up. In those moments, I should take a step back and try and budget time for the big things first, like writing, rather than inverting priorities just because something urgent to push one problem to the head of the line. Most of the time urgent problems linger for awhile anyway, and I waste time trying to micromanage something that can’t be managed because it was out of my control in the first place.

Anyway, if I let myself focus on the problem too much, I wind up with another one, which is I don’t get done all that I would like. One problem or another got in the way of writing this book for years until I was in a place where I couldn’t take the problems anymore. Not writing became it’s own problem. In the end, not writing was harder than writing. I just went with writing.