The discipline of writing

It has been over a month since my last post.
I have only five entries this year.
I have not looked at my blog this month.
Clearly, this needs to change, and it will!!

One of the reasons I started writing a blog was to get into the discipline of writing.
Writing is therapeutic, it is an activity whereby you reflect on yuour actions, verbalize them, make observations of the world around, articulate a spoint of view and share it with your friends and all your readers. It is also an activity that maintains my life in balance and the very fact I have been inconsistent means that there is pressure from the one area( particularly work) that is obviously spilling over some other aspects of my life.

Balance is tricky but the key to balance is ability to lay out all the potential things that one does and then outline some priorities for them so that given the 24 hours in a day, one can keep in mind the competing priorities and make appropriate trade-offs. The consistent trade off I seem to have made in the past few months is writing a post on the blog. If I had done that deliberately, that would have been fine- meaning it lined up well with my priority list and I made the conscious decision knowing I was sacrificing this for something more important. However, the decision has not been conscious- it is something that just happened. And that is what I or I guess, most of us need to avoid.

The corporate sector gets us into a certain rhythm, a certain consistency, a certain pattern of doing things that grows exponentially over time. While that has its important uses, we must never forget that life isnt just about making money and pleasing our boss and climbing the corporate ladder. I know I need to constantly step back, and think about where Im going. The discipline of writing regularly helps me do that.
I am sure you have the same conundrum. You dont have to write- do anything that suits you, a long walk, listening to your favortie music, meditation- anything that would help put things in perspective. Remember, there is a reason why life in the corporate sector is often referred to as the rat race. We and our lives are meant for bigger and better things. The corporate life is means to that, and so are so many others things that we shouldnt miss out on.

Though I have been recalcitrant on the blog, I shall hope to correct this in the future, not with such admonitions, but something lighter, hopefully more amusing, and infinitely more interesting about the world and life around us.