Beginnings

Good Morning. :)

It wasn't too long ago that I realized that I have a small discipline problem. It's not so much that I am irresponsible or lazy. It isn't lack of desire either. But when it comes to doing something everyday to build momentum towards some end or goal I have trouble. Allow me to give a more specific example.

When I was 14(ish) I visited Montana on a summer vacation with my family. My mom grew up and went to college there and we happened to visit an old friend of hers. While we were at her home I happened to eye a guitar she had laying around. I told my parents that I would like to learn how to play guitar. Low and behold, I walked out with one of her guitars! She graciously "lent" me her guitar and I have it to this day.

Yet I couldn't get motivated to practice. I even took lessons at one point, but it never caught on. It wasn't until my brother decided to pick it up several years later and learned some "cool music" that the guitar got some decent use. And it wasn't until then that I thought I didn't really want him to get the best use of the guitar and so he taught me a few things and showed me how to really get going.

I find myself in this situation now as I feel the pull to write. I think might like writing and I think I might be good at it, I just need to DO it. I even tried to start a blog that required writing everyday but I couldn't do it. In part because of personal issues (I actually hope to continue the journey at some point) but partly because I didn't have the discipline to get something posted everyday (or even every other).

So this is my attempt to build a little consistency and discipline in my writing game. There won't be much consistency to each blog, I am almost certain they won't really relate to each other. You can plan on getting whatever happens to be running through my head that day. And perhaps musings about discipline and what it looks like with writing. Ideally, one day this blog won't be necessary at all and I can focus my energy on something a bit more coherent.

Until tomorrow...peace.