Flashback Friday and A Weird Week
No one can be up all the time.
Happy Friday…
One day, I’ll wake up on Mother’s Day and my first thought won’t be to call Mom before she goes out to breakfast with my sister. But not yet. It’s too soon and I still miss her horribly every day, but special days most of all.
Then my daughter will call and we’ll laugh and talk and make plans for the day while my brain straddles past and present and I miss the days I could just scoop her up for a snuggle instead of waving as she backs out of my driveway and drives away.
No one can be “up” all the time.
It’s been a weird week.
My newsletter last Friday was the most abysmal this year as far as response goes, and work has been so swamped that I didn’t have time to write on Medium. Second week in a row, so I’ve written a grand total of two posts in two weeks. Cripes.
Dropping balls all over the place.
I was expecting my stats to fall—everything to fall.
It happens. No one can be “up” all the time. Sometimes, we fall in hole and there’s nothing to do about it except get busy climbing back out.
Sometimes, you see the hole coming but it’s too big and too wide to avoid it, so you brace yourself for the fall.
That was me. Bracing for the fall I thought was inevitable
But then a company emailed and offered me $500 to write a post for them based on my writing on Medium. Then I got an email from Medium saying they’re sending a $500 bonus to the 1000 writers with highest engagement in April and I’m one of them.
I sat back and just laughed. I didn’t see that coming.
Maybe I should “not” write more often? lol.
Effort pays compound interest.
But no, because effort tends to pay compound interest.
If you wrote 500 words a day, you’d finish the first draft of a book in four months. Sixty thousand words, pecked out at a mere 500 words a day.
All effort counts, even if it’s sporadic or minimal.
Despite how obsessed the world is with hustle culture and exhaustion as a status symbol, we actually can rest once in a while. It’s better if we do.
I think there’s merit in saying that just because we can’t do as much as we want to, doesn’t mean we can’t do something. Baby steps still get you there.
The world won’t end if we take the time to enjoy family, friends or nature. Even better, we come back refreshed, with our heads and hearts in the right place again.
:)
Thought for the day
I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still, I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
~Edward Everett Hale
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Happy Mother’s Day to the moms among us, and have a great weekend…
xo,
Linda
Good morning and congrats on the two lovely treats. Thanks for this piece,Linda. We can be so hard on ourselves sometimes, continually raising the bar when really, like you said, breaks are ok too. And needed. Have a lovely day on Sunday with your daughter. 🥰
It's been a weird week all over, Linda. Your post last week was great - I shared it with a bunch of people, and printed it out. It seems like a lot of people are struggling lately, with a variety of issues. But, as we all know, this too shall pass. Stay safe, my friend.