Life is a whirlwind sometimes.
Right now, that whirlwind has landed me in New Hampshire.
I've now got a bit of a pass as to being able to focus more on writing again. There will always be day-to-day things that will eat away at waking time, and once again I find myself in need of that boring old thing called discipline.
One of the things I did before the move was join an e-list for writers, which I then promptly let slide leading up to, during, and after the move until today. In my post intro-ing myself there, I used a word, which isn't real as far as I know: procrationalization. This, of course, is meant to be a combination of Procrastination and Rationalization, to denote that the former is often hand in hand and even fueled with the latter.
Somewhere along the way between then and now, I'm wondering if there would be a Twelve Step Program for such a habit, although to follow the model, I guess it would be called Procrationalizism. So, if for no other reason than to write and attempt to be a bit goofy, here goes. (I should note that I'm a spiritualist, so the God part, I'm changing to mean the support base of writer sympathizers.)
1. I've admitted I was powerless over procrationalizing—that my life had become unmanageable.
2. I've come to believe that a Collective Power greater than myself could restore me to sanity.
3. I've made a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of that power as I understand it.
4. I've made a searching and fearless moral inventory of myself.
5. I've admitted to the Collective Power, to myself, and to another human being the exact nature of my wrongs.
6. I'm entirely ready to have the Collective Power remove all these defects of character.
7. I humbly asked the Collective Power to remove my shortcomings.
8. I've made a list of all persons I have harmed, and become willing to make amends to them all.
9. I've made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10.I continue to take personal inventory, and when I was wrong promptly admitted it.
11.I sought through prayer and meditation to improve my conscious contact with the Collective Power as I understood it, asking only for knowledge of its will for me and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, I tried to carry this message to procrationalizationics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Right now, I've taken 1-3 steps to heart, and I've still a bit to go on #4.
Time will tell how I do.
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