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Hopscotch

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What part of your routine do you always try to skip if you can?

Part of my routine that is damaging, and so I try to skip it, is negative self-talk. It happens all too easily. When I realize the silent conversation I’m having with myself is of a negative nature, and I have the fortitude to shut it down, I hop over that, and I’m on to the next thing.

Although I accomplish a lot, procrastination is commonplace. Doing things that keep me in one place for too long doesn’t sit well with me. I don’t like feeling confined to a desk or one room. I find myself wanting to skip these things, albeit strangely, this is how responsibilities in many directions are handled, so to speak.

I routinely jump into tasks that aren’t pressing and put off things I should be jumping toward.

Proper time management and optimal productivity with tasks and family (and our pets🦎) are really a hop, skip, and a jump away. We simply need to learn how to play the game as it pertains to us.

12 responses to “Hopscotch”

  1. You have good personal insight.

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  2. Thank you, Cindy. I do need to work on my follow through. I’ve never participated in one of those daily writing prompts shown by WP, & I haven’t quite figured out why I decided to do that one, but there it is.

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  3. Why can’t you just go down to the schoolyard and play hopscotch?

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  4. I got side-tracked painting the basement. Literally. 🙂 Thanks, Bumba

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  5. […] fashion, participated in a writing prompt. The prompt is seen on our post titled, “Hopscotch.” But, we have to participate in one final prompt (chosen by who, I’ve no idea) because […]

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  6. Meh, it nearly fell out, practically wrote itself, but it’s true. Thank you.

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  7. that reassuring voice I hear in my head just before I begin something new, the one that goes, ‘oh, this will be great.’ I don’t want to hear that voice because the thing I’m about to do is never guaranteed to be great, and in fact may not work, and I might fail. what other reason is there to do it? if I listen to that voice I will only attempt to do something familiar and safe. there’s no fun in that.

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  8. “If I listen to that voice I will only attempt to do something familiar and safe. There’s no fun in that.” I get that. However, the only choice you’ve mentioned is the reassuring one you hear in your head before you begin something new. So there are 2 voices actually, the one that says something new will be great and another that says, “Stick with what you know, stay familiar, stay safe.” And I can relate all to well with this. I guess it comes down to which dog we want to feed. Do you want to stick with the life, devils, angels (or whatever) you do know, or meet new ones, hopefully the good kinds and have different experiences, also hopefully the good kinds?

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  9. Thank you very much.

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