Checking in…
Been on the new schedule for a week or so now, and it’s going OK, although I am changing it up tomorrow…
The cardio/yoga two-fer is just a pretty intense way to start the day, and I need to remember that the main focus is working on the book. So, getting up at 6:40 to finish yoga by 8:20 to walk to the 9 a.m. yoga to get home at 11 to have an early lunch and then start working on the book in the p.m. hours…. well, it just front-loads a lot of my day.
Doing both of them has definitely affected me, in the sense that I am ravenous when both have finished. And on one occasion, I got the sense that I had already overexerted with the cardio, and that yoga would be pushing things, so I went home after cardio that day.
I just think there is more flexibility doing it the other way around. Waking up and working on the book first, putting everything else as a nice bonus after the real work has been done for the day.
Of course, this is the time to experiment, since the first week or two is just trying to get myself in a place to be creative anyway. I put my time in every day, but until you settle into it being a regular thing, you don’t really get the feeling you are doing your best work yet.
Making progress, though (despite a misguided attempt to add some tonal thing of the main character addressing the actual reader of the book. Way too cute. Brought nothing to the table. But it was only one day. It is deleted now.)
