At the end of every momentous year (yes, I do consider every year to be momentous in its own way), I tend to mentally declutter or rather spring clean my mind. As I have often mentioned in the past, being an introvert and living in the world of extroverts can be challenging in more ways than one. One simple feature is the inability to think or focus or do all those things that a writer needs to do in his or her daily life. The outside world with its incessant cacophony and unceasing dialogues tend to burden the mind. Society loves to chat and no matter how many doors you close and bolts you fasten, it will find its way into your life and fill it with unnecessary words, sentences and pictures. And then you are grappling for the right words and right emotions which have hoodwinked you all the while you were forcibly pulled away from your tiny world of peace .
Every Winter I tend to Spring Clean my mind. Now this may sound odd, but I cannot think of a better way to express myself at the moment. I tend to throw away the frivolous moments and burdensome phrases that the ongoing year has piled upon my consciousness and choose to cherish only the ones that have meant something to me in the recent past. Also, I tend to declutter my mind and refresh myself for the upcoming new year by cutting out on all the unnecessary chores and trying to focus upon only those that might benefit both me and my career. Although my full time job tends to give me my bread and butter, but I know that my heart is not into it. Writing has always been my passion and I can think of nothing except writing when it comes to real work. However, I have tried and have succeeded to a certain extent in relegating my official job to the sidelines of my mind, thus in the process, offering the center stage to writing. This year too I have decided to formulate a routine in order to facilitate my total devotion to my craft.
- Relegate official work to work hours only.
- Avoid logging into my work email after work hours.
- Shut off all notifications of my phone once I return home every evening.
- Use my alternative flip phone for the family.
- Sit at my computer every single day even during the occasional writer’s block.
- Read, read and read more.
- Avoid screens as much as possible.
- Maintain a daily record of how much I have accomplished each day.
- Finally, when I am not writing, cook healthy meals, because it is during cooking that I get some of my great ideas 🙂
Au revoir ! Back to Spring Cleaning in Winter !
All good ideas.
I wish you luck, although I’m sure you will succeed, especially with writing.
As for reading, have you read Lawrence Durrell? I think you would like him. He wrote four exquisite novels known collectively as The Alexandria Quartet. His writing is so beautiful, it is like perfumed, aromatic poetry. He wrote many other books too, novels, travel books, plays and poetry.
For myself, I am writing an essay on 15th century Italian religious art that I must complete by the first week of January for my Masters degree in art history, and then I start researching my final dissertation. So I may not post very regularly here but I will keep writing when I can.
Thank you so much. And I wish you luck with your Masters degree papers and dissertation. Good to know that you are interested in art history. It is clearly reflected in your writings. Do keep in touch and take care 🙂
PS: I will definitely check out Lawrence Durrell 🙂
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