What part of your routine do you always try to skip if you can?

I try not to worry too much. It is impossible not to at all, but I have done my best to minimize worry and fear. I follow the energy that best aligns with me. I budget my energy because it is time driven and much can be done or much can be wasted. Learning is a constant, and I continue striving to achieve my goals. I would like to give great examples to my family, so that they too can carry on in whatever drives them the most. The one thing I have been skipping lately is updating the story of XY on this platform and I have been trying to figure out myself why am I not keeping the story current as it has been updated elsewhere.

On contributing to National Novel Writers Month, I have been on a routine of typing a few thousand words per day in order to accomplish the word count required. It is one of the easier steps to accomplish. The actual structuring of a novel, building characters and write stories is the art of writing itself.

The question of what part of my routine do I try to skip was a tough question for me to answer. I am not one to be strict with routines. I have seeked changes several times in life, that nothing has been constant. I used to enjoy answering daily prompts and keeping up with a loose routine of posting on the site. For some reason, the questions lately aren’t quite catching my interests and I have noticed that the new novel isn’t catching reader’s interests as posts have in the past. I am chapters ahead in my story that I am typing called XY Travels. I believe I have typed up to Chapter 9 currently and I have come up with names for 15 chapters. Chapter 15 is a fascinating number that jumped at me most likely because of its roman numeral structure, which is XV and the stories are XY.

I am not sure if the story is too confusing in the structure that I have presented it, or if it is just a slow time in that platform, while I am finding heavy traffic in the NaNoWriMo site currently. The thought that it is not interesting also hits my brain causing self doubt.

Whatever it is, I am focused currently on the process of creating the new novel and keeping up with the word count. Being that I am counting words and staying on focus with the novel and the novel isn’t as appealing to this site, I have currently been skipping my routine these last few days. The question is what part of your routine do you always try to skip if you can, which is an odd way to ask in my opinion. At least for me, because I wake up with a joy of having a fresh start to a new day. So waking up early or on time is not something I try to skip if I can. If I need more rest, I rest. If I have a task to do that requires me to be awake early, I make it happen. What other routine event would someone try to skip?

I do my best to avoid energies that do not align with me. I am on an energy budget and a time budget. I have plenty to worry about when I think about my actual surroundings, family and neighbors. I assign myself tasks to accomplish throughout the day and week. I have seen years ahead and months ahead. Those are all possibilities still waiting to get structured to get to them as perceived in the mind. There is so many things I already fill my head up with. So one thing that I do my best to avoid is negative energies in the form of news, media and visuals that put me in a lower vibration. I focus throughout most of the day on goals and search for or listen to ideas that align with my own and possibly teach me to progress in my own projects.

This would lead me to avoid having a long conversation with my mother. It has become apparent that our minds, paths and energies are not aligning and will not align any time soon. Therefore, I send her love from afar and keep conversations minimum. There is no point in arguing why I think it is the course of action for all of us to take, or for me to take if no one else wants to. And I will not listen to her argument, being that it just seems like again what I decide to do just is not what she would like me to, but I am going to do what I do anyway. It is not like it is completely necessary that I talk to my elders. I have my own home and daughter to care for. She has her own daughter and man she cares for. And we are all helping our home survive regardless of what others think. So instead of searching for an argument, I focus on my family being my descendents.

So I do not know. If it is a routine to argue with a parent, then apparently that would be one routine that I skip if I can. Or if worrying is a routine most commonly done, then that would also be a routine that I skip if I can. I do not look forward to the evening news. I have not seen regular basic cable news in almost a whole year. And when I did, I recall thinking to myself that surprisingly nothing has changed. It no longer interests me. Like having a habit of smoking cigarettes. One day I decide to stop and I do. As I did with the news and all the gossip people that used to come around. So that is the routine I always try to avoid if I can, feeding into the negative energies, news and information. I am not saying that I never get caught up and watch. I am not saying I do not react and let it bring me down sometimes. I do avoid it as much as I can.

Thank you for reading

AlexAirbrushLuna