{"id":2236,"date":"2016-01-27T21:31:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T03:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2016-01-28T06:19:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T12:19:52","slug":"ch-ch-ch-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=2236","title":{"rendered":"Ch-ch-ch-choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/24632274566\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"84-85\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1573\/24632274566_1e3eb68140_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"84-85\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cranes 84-85 of 1000 for 2016.<\/p>\n<p>I folded these cranes at an Asian restaurant while waiting for my food to arrive. I had the choice to go to dinner or complete my origami\/photo project for the day, so I decided to do both, of course. I am a person who enjoys a challenge, and one of life&#8217;s biggest frustrations has been that it is so dang difficult to complete more than one challenge at a time and to also do a job and have a life. If I succeed in an exercise challenge, my creative challenges usually suffer. If I succeed in a creative challenge, my exercise habits tend to take a nosedive. There&#8217;s only so much time in a day.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I&#8217;m trying to do it all. Today, I went to work from 7:30-3:00. Went to the gym from 3:00-4:00. Came home, walked the dog, fed the cats, and went out again to have dinner with a friend. I took my photograph for the day at the restaurant. I have not done any of the photo challenges from the groups I&#8217;ve signed up for. I just took a photograph to count for my photo-a-day. Ultimately, that&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve promised to absolutely get done on a daily basis. I&#8217;m also still 500 steps short of my goal of 12,000 steps for the day, but I have totally knocked out the minimum requirement of 10,000 steps. Maybe I will attempt to walk around my apartment for a little while to get in those last 500, or maybe I will admit fatigue and go to bed. It&#8217;s good to have choices.<\/p>\n<p>I know from past experience that I cannot do it all. I also know that I will always want to do it all. Today, I&#8217;ve basically managed to cover a variety of objectives, but that&#8217;s because I didn&#8217;t have to spend another five hours working on work after I came home. I will reach a point when I will have no other choice but to keep working on work after work. We will see what happens to all of my personal challenges then. <\/p>\n<p>For now, some would say I&#8217;d be better off pacing myself, but I say you&#8217;re not really achieving until you are overachieving. Hence, my goal of 12,000 steps a day instead of 10,000. Hence, my feeling of failure in having taken only one photograph today for my photo-a-day project. <\/p>\n<p>But you know what? I had a good day today. I enjoyed the whole day all day, and I got stuff done too.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I will crash and burn from pushing myself in too many directions before this is over, but burned is nowhere I&#8217;ve never been before. It will be okay. <\/p>\n<p>And until then, it&#8217;s good to have choices, and it&#8217;s good to have those days when you enjoy life and meet every goal at the most minimal possible level.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun, kids. Catch you later. I&#8217;m off to walk and sleep now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cranes 84-85 of 1000 for 2016. 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