My Social Media-less Life

I have gotten to the point in my day where nothing seems good to write about, but I know in my “knower” that there were at least three topics I considered writing about today.

One of the things I’ve lost the ability to do– for whatever reason– is remember a writing topic for longer than three minutes. And it really does seem to be that long.

To be fair, I’ve also noticed I’ll just forget normal day things, like return an Amazon purchase to the nearest Kohl’s. But those are things I don’t have to do on a regular basis.

What I had to “train” myself to do was something that I heard a teacher in ministry school call “work against myself.”

It sounds a bit weird to call it that, but then I thought about it for a time and decided if I can’t remember things, why not give it a shot. So, when I think about things, like clean out my vacuum cleaner for work or move the Amazon return to the front seat so I see it, or anything like that, I just do the thing when I’m thinking of it. Provided I’m not already doing something else that requires two hands or something like staying in one place, I try to do the things right then.

My favorite thing is when the time comes for me to “need” that thing and it’s all ready to go for me.

For example: Today with the Amazon return, I had forgotten about it because it was in the back seat. I got home and then realized I forgot to return it, so I made the decision that if I’m going out, it needs to be for more than one reason (at the end of the day, only things with more than one reason will get me out of the house). So I chose to go to my friend’s house to get some writing done.

I did technically get writing done, not including this blog…

But beside that, the other thing I did when I got home was, I immediately moved the return to the front seat so I would see it and remember when I got back in the car that I needed to return that before I went to my friend’s house.

Thus, working against myself.

The other fun thing about myself (since this is called Thoughts From Today), is that I had maybe one or two stories I kept telling myself all day when I wasn’t actively listening to a podcast. Neither of them was my actual story, and it’s pretty evident because I couldn’t even think of where I wanted to go in the story so…

I’ll probably think about that tomorrow since I did have a perspective change again and that helps when it’s one character as opposed to another.

Anyway, just wanted to do a quick writing and tell you how my day went. 🙂
How was your day?