NANOWRIMO PEP RALLY

I can’t believe Nanowrimo is just 2 days away! Cathi helped get me motivated with her last blog NANOWRIMO PEP TALK . But still I have procrastinated on my preparation for this challenge and I find I’m beginning to beat myself up before I’ve even started. So I decided to dig deep into my cheerleader past and go for a full-fledged pep rally!

“YOU CAN DO IT! YES YOU CAN!” (please insert your own claps) – I need to hear this cheer in my head like a mantra. Then I need to actually do it. The first thing I’m going to do is sit down and make a calendar of goals for the month, week, and day. I am going to have to be on a strict schedule until it becomes routine. I will not let the little devil on my shoulder that says, “you earned this break and you can always do it tomorrow” win me over. In fact, I will actually schedule fun and down time as a goal only earned if I stay on schedule! Even so, I know that some days I will mess up and I can’t let myself fall into a spiral and give up, so …

“HEY, HEY WHAT DO YOU SAY? GET BACK UP AND MAKE THAT PLAY!” (again provide your own rhythm) – In addition to the calendar I will make sticky notes with quotes and encouragement to post on my mirror and the fridge and the coffee maker and the front door and the … you get the idea. My house may look a little crazy but with any luck I will stay motivated and by Thanksgiving, my routine will be so ingrained that I can take some of the notes down. Maybe I’ll leave the ones on the fridge for when I go for a slice of the leftover pie in the middle of the night.

“S-U-C-C-E-S-S, THAT’S THE WAY WE SPELL SUCCESS!” – I really do want to succeed! I need to picture myself pitching the book that I write in a month and getting published. It’s such a great story idea … I just need to get it on paper! This is an thrilling and scary prospect at the same time. So many of us have ideas of what we want to happen in life and things we want to accomplish but never do, simply out of fear. At least I will be trying which in itself will be a success. I think back to March when Cathi and I just had an idea for a blog. What if we hadn’t just done it? We wouldn’t be having the fun we are now with our writing! We even have a podcast in the works … how exciting is that? I guess it’s because of this, that I’m able to challenge myself and really imagine success.

Therefore, after this Nanowrimo pep rally, all I can say is, “Challenge Accepted!”