I\u2019ve said it before and I\u2019ll say it again, writing can be exhausting, and that is because thinking can be exhausting. People tend to think ( actually I don\u2019t know what people tend to think, but this is what I think people tend to think) exhausting work is labor intensive work, but au contraire, mon frere there is all kinds of exhausting work and sometimes it\u2019s just having your brain just going all day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But anyway, I said all that to say, ya girl is tired. And lately I\u2019ve just been tired all the damn time. I don\u2019t sleep well at night. I don\u2019t sleep long when I do sleep. Even if I go to bed early \u2013 and that\u2019s a rare occasion \u2013 I\u2019ll wake up three, four hours later. Eight hours of sleep, what? Eight hours of sleep, who? Not me, maybe you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What it all boils down to, as my grandmother used to say, or what it partly boils down to, as I\u2019m saying now, is I\u2019m out of shape. I was reading something somewhere (I don\u2019t remember where) where they were doing a mini-profile on several commercially successful writers and one thing that they all had in common was that they all exercised regularly. Perhaps like me, your initial thought was, what\u2019s exercising got to do with it, they sit on their asses all day and write. But there is a difference I feel after exercising, even if I\u2019m going to sit on my ass all day and write, or more like watch TV. But it does give you energy. I\u2019m not going to even lie. After a nice walk or doing a cardio routine off of YouTube, I\u2019m ready for the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I haven\u2019t gone for a walk or did a YouTube exercise video in months, and I\u2019m feeling their absence. So now, it\u2019s time for me to start it up again. I need to start taking my health and fitness more seriously and get this sluggish feeling off of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To get the job done for 2023, I think I want to join and gym. And not just join a gym, but also sign-up for some personal training classes. I know we\u2019re still in the throes of the pandemic, but I think I can brave a trip to the gym, if nothing else to get the motivation that comes from seeing other people doing the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Member step aerobics? They should bring that back. Random thought that just came to me and I thought I\u2019d share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But yeah, if I\u2019m going to get the most out of life, I can\u2019t live it lacklusterly. And it\u2019s funny, most every time I sit down to write, this wave of lethargy comes over me, but when I sit down to do some online shopping, a burst of energy comes over me. I could do that all night long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think that just goes to show the mind, body connection. Perhaps it\u2019s my contentious relationship with writing that triggers the feelings of exhaustion because my mind knows that I don\u2019t want to do it. And the fact that exercising makes me feel better does too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So yeah, I\u2019m going to start trying to prioritize exercise, or at least try to incorporate it in to my daily life more often\u2026create a routine, and well, we\u2019ll see. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019ve said it before and I\u2019ll say it again, writing can be exhausting, and that is because thinking can be exhausting. People tend to think ( actually I don\u2019t know what people tend to think, but this is what I…<\/p>\n