Keeping focus is HARD. At least it is for me. In the last month I’ve done several things, including creating a schedule to keep me on track and make sure I’m dedicating a little bit of time each day to my personal goals. But life isn’t so easy to regiment. There are days that I end up with a migraine; days where my daughter needs me more; days where everything that can go wrong does. It’s a never ending list of distractions and obligations. Keeping focus becomes even more imortant now than when I was young and to be honest, I wasn’t great at it when I was young either. I’m that person who gets really excited about something, comes up with all these plans and gets part way through them only to not finish them. And it isn’t because I don’t have the drive. It’s usually because I get overwhelmed and pushing through seems like an unclimbable mountain. That overwhelmed feeling can look like a lot of different things. I don’t have the time; I’m too tired; I don’t have the money. Well, you get the idea. Some of them are legitimate concerns and just becuase I might need to pause what I want to do on that particular day doesn’t mean it has to be on a permanent pause. THAT is where keeping my focus comes in. Like anything, practicing music, writing a book, exercising, whatever it might be requires me to create a new habit. And on those days where it just seems too much, I have to remind myself WHY I am doing this. And on days where I simply forget, (because let’s be fair, out of sight, out of mind is a thing and mine has gotten worse as a mother), I have to give myself grace and pick up where I left off.