I have a fairly busy life and have struggled for some time with fitting everything I want to into my life with the attention I feel it deserves.

My biggest problem is my focus. I get really focused on one area and work really hard at it until something else grabs my focus (Oh is that a shiny organizer for my closet!) and then I am off with my focus on that area for a while.

Focus is good, but my type of focus is not really condusive to achieving what I want in my life. The first thing I realized is that I am much a morning person if I get between 6 and 7 hours of sleep at night versus 8 to 9 which I sometimes felt I needed. I am much more alive in the morning, but this means I have to stay up until 11 or 12pm. Which is just fine with me because that is a perfect time for journaling, reflecting and writing.

Having my reading, writing, journaling, reflecting time after everyone has gone to bed is ideal. I have no interuptions and can focus on these areas with no guilt. I had tried this in the past but felt guilty for isolating myself from my kids and husband. The late night time is perfect and guilt free.

Yesterday was my epiphany. I woke up with fewer strokes of the snooze button and got ready for work and was in a good mood and on time to my job. I was in a great mood all day and realized that it may of had something to do with me staying up later the night before. Weird, but ok I shall repeat this process tonight. Since I had time before me I allocated for eating dinner, playing my punkin, spending time with my husband and the dogs. Tonight I am going to insert working out and then I will really feel great.

Late night I meshed my initial Danika WIP with the newer version I attempted for NanoWrimo (I started all over again and liked the beginning and dialogue a lot better) and am ok with the outcome. Tonight I will be increasing the word count.
I also read a bit and thoroughly enjoyed doing so. I am in the midst of Into the Looking Glass by John Ringo. I am loving it. This book is very action packed and Ringo is really good at revealing things as he goes, versus the irritating info dump. I am over halfway through and can't wait to finish.

Finding my own personal rhythm is helping. I hope I can keep this up with spreading out my focus versus being ADD and jumping from one to another.