Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Wizard

When we visited family on that last trip, one of my great-nephews introduced me to this game, http://www.wizard101.com/ , my first online rpg. I love it so much so far that Mav has started trying to help me with my 'addicition' to it. So, I willingly gave myself office hours again. I know that my job will blouse out around them, and that when Mav takes a nap I label it coffee break time (tea for me, actually) and get to play for a half hour, but my soft aim is to not play it between 10:00ish and afternoon tea time (4:30 for me).  (You know, I don't think I've ever been to high tea?)
Moral here for everyone: If you are self employed, respect yourself and your own pleasure and health enough to have certain hours each day that you are not working, and one full day off a week. That's as a habitual thing. I know it won't always happen. But, as Picard might say, Make It So!
And Julia Cameron, in The Artist's Way, is in favor of us all taking Artist's Dates, one a week. That's when you put yourself on the calendar, and then have a date with yourself doing whatever you know will please you, hopefully away from any ingrained habits most of the time.  Charge up by changing the oil, as it were.

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