Why do we feel this "strong desire"? I amaze myself sometimes. Don't get me wrong, I'm like the queen of sitting in front of the TV watching tennis or whatever. I also spend a lot of time in front of the computer. However, I found one of my lists from last week, and I nearly cried just looking at it. (Just FYI, I'm a list person, and I sometimes make a list AFTER I've done most of the items on it. This makes me feel accomplished. Please tell me I'm not the only one who does this.)
Anyway, here's my list:
- Fill out DH's graduation papers.
- Fax graduation papers.
- Pay for graduation.
- Grade 90 sixth grade essays.
- Launch ebook.
- Prepare brand new Query Ninja blog.
- Boy kidlet - soccer practice/games.
- Boy kidlet - flag football practice/games.
- Boy kidlet - rockets on Friday. Build, glue, sand, paint.
- Go to work.
- Farmville on Facebook. Crops are dying! Animals need harvesting! Trees are going to seed!
- Pick up T-shirt for writing conference (Oh, my heck, you guys, it's SO. CUTE.)
- Mop floor.
- Write - deadline for WiP is this Friday!
- Check email.
- Clean 3 bathrooms.
- Grocery shopping.
- Change laundry.
- Girl kidlet - dance.
- Boy kidlet - piano lessons.
- Re-fax graduation papers for DH.
- Pay bills.
- Obsessively check to see if the tax return has come yet. (It hasn't.)
- Write - deadline for WiP is this Friday!
- Blog.
- Read blogs. Comment. A lot.
- Facebook.
- Rally Storm.
- Critique 70 pages.
- Vacuum.
- Dishes.
- Go to work.
- Watch tennis.
- Update website.
- Create banner.
- Find the perfect blogger template.
And on top of all that, I wrote the two best words in the English language: THE END. That's right, bloggy friends! I finished my WiP early! Four days early, according to my self-imposed deadline. I wrote those words on Monday and haven't looked back. It feels amazing.
I know there's more hard work ahead of me. Editing. Rewriting. Bleeding over the critiques. But, hey, ambition. I haz it.
How do you find time/energy/willpower "to achieve something typically requiring determination and hard work"?