Finding Time

I'm just going to start this out with a humble brag: I'm so proud of myself for still finding the time to blog over this weekend when I could have fed myself so many excuses like "You're with friends or you're too busy right now or this blog challenge doesn't really matter, it's not a grade or anything." But I made a promise to myself that I was going to blog everyday in July, and I wouldn't break a promise to a friend, so why break a promise to myself?

Towards the end of this past school year, I was getting so excited to have all the free time over the summer to work on all the creative things "that I don't have time to do" during the school year. First of all, that's a lie and an excuse. If I really wanted to work on my creative skills and better myself, I would, but I found excuses and thought that watching Vampire Diaries was way more important. Well, summer came and the whole month of May and June, what did I do? Nothing creative that's for sure. I was feeling unmotivated to be creative because I had just gotten done with school, so I was allowed to give myself a break to do nothing and be lazy, right? I think those lazy times are needed to rest and rejuvenate, but 2 MONTHS is way, way too long. I actually got a little kick from my step mom in the end of June asking me where my blogs were because clearly I had left them in the dust. That's when I got the idea to blog every day in July. I was tired of giving myself excuses and was honestly disappointed in how lazy I was. I had all these ideas in my head, but I never put my money where my mouth is, so they just stayed ideas and never came into fruition. Fun fact, July 1st came around and I hadn't written a single word all day. I thought to myself, "eh no one knows that I was going to do this. Maybe I'll do it in August instead." How insane is that. I was seriously going to blow off my own plan. Also, I know August would have come around and I would've given myself the excuse of "Oh school's starting and I'm moving and I won't have time." So at 11:17 pm on July 1st, I FINALLY did the damn thing and posted my first July blog post. And the next day, I wrote another one and it made me happy. And the next day I wrote another and I actually hated the way that blog sounded. But the next day I wrote another, and guess what, it made me happy!! So here we are, only 7 days later, and I have written approximately 3,050 words. Now I understand that I've written more words than that for a single college paper so it's not that impressive, BUT that's 3,050 more words than I had written in the past two months.

My catch all lesson from this is that if I really want something, I don't just need to find time. I need to make time. This blog has brought me so much joy and substance to my life. I feel like I'm actually accomplishing the thing that I would only dream of doing two weeks ago. The same goes for so many other things in my life like reading or working out. Before last week, I couldn't tell you the last time I sat down to read a book for fun. But on Friday, I made the choice to grab my book instead of my phone (Currently reading "Girl, Wash Your Face" by Rachel Hollis). And I wouldn't say that I love working out, I more just love being active. So my preferred form of workout is walking my dog, but it takes me 2 times longer to walk than to run, so sometimes I convince myself that I don't have time to do it. Bullsh*t. Get up an hour earlier then. Don't watch those two episodes of The Office.

Sidenote: I've been trying not to cuss lately because I just don't like the way it sounds coming out of my mouth, but I feel like sometimes it's needed for emphasis, so my apologies for my two cuss words in this post hahaha.

I was fast typing/loud typing this whole blog. You know when you're sitting in class and the person next to you is wayyyy to aggressive with their keyboard, yeah that was me for the last 20 minutes lol. I now feel so passionate about cutting the crap and just doing it.

I hope that this motivates you to do the thing you've been putting off. It's Monday, so start the week by doing something new. And if you happen to not be reading this on a Monday, you can still start today. There's no time like the present!!

Okay, I'm done now :)

Just Julia