Well March came and went, and none of my novel-writing 'March Madness' plans were executed. Sure, I was inspired by the original concept to write 1.5k words in my work blog every day -- still not where I wanted to be at, but we'll ignore that -- but that's neither here nor there. Instead I worked on finishing my website, which is a respectable although quite a delayed goal.
What's in store for April for me?
I don't think I want to work full-time on the website as I've been doing for the past two months. It's getting tedious and boring. I'll make it a regular thing, but not a full-time thing. Maybe just on the weekends, or 30 minutes every day. Anything beyond that and uck, don't wanna.
Thinking making the podcast might take more of my time, but 1) it will probably take more time to execute than I will have ability, 2) a lot of it depends on other people, and it's unclear how they are prepared, and 3) I will talk and I will shout, but will I actually podcast? It's unclear if I have the skills, the drive and the energy to actually do it for proper, but committed I have, to everybody, so some progress is bound to happen.
And in the rest of the time? Thinking I might take a potshot in April and May (possibly even June) to read up and write about the vision I have created for myself, the short-term one. What it means is: what if I pretended I already had my dream job, started reading and writing like a person in my dream position, and just behaved that I was driving a challenging team in a challenging environment, and negotiating with hard partners? What if I sunk myself deep into the world of imagined product management / senior leadership, and became the person I am hoping to trick people into thinking I am? Will it be done in 2 or three months? Most definitely not, they'll be needing years of experience to get to that level. But then I do listen to books at almost 3x the speed and I am known to be a decent pretender if nothing else. Perhaps if I try really, really hard, I'll get better at where I'm right now. I wonder how I could solidly measure the goal? Like what exactly will be the output of it? Read 10 books, listen to 10 videos, do 10 'challenges' and design plans, create a vision board, imagine different conversations and scenarios and how you would deal with them, and play out them with your friends? And write down about the experience? I mean that sounds fun because it involves acting, it involves over-stimulation, it involves audiobooks, but I wonder if it would be a truly fruitful experience?
The other option is just to do what I was gonna do for march madness anyway. 3000 words a day, for 30 days, at the end of the whole shebang I have a novel. Simple as. I could even orally dictate the novel!
Or maybe like take a rest, and walk for 3 hours daily instead of 1.5 as I do now? Go to the arboretum every day for an entire month, and make that a fundamental part of my days? Maybe I'll get so good at walking I'll be able to do it in 2.5 hours and keep doing it for the rest of my time around these parts?
Could think of a bunch of other ideas, but timer's running out. Will get back to this again, don't worry! Laters.
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