NaBloPoMo stands for National Blog Posting Month, where you commit to yourself to write one blog post a day for an entire month (i.e., this past month). Allow me to be self-congratulatory and say, I did it! This was also NaNoWriMo (kind of what got this sort of thing started), which stands for National Novel Writing Month where you try to write a complete draft of a novel in 30 days. There are other variations of these too.
Anyway, this has been an insightful exercise for me. I am one of those people who process things best when I write them down. When I committed to doing NaBloPoMo, I was concerned that it would take time away from important activities in my day. Interestingly enough, I think it helped me personally and actually gave me more energy to do other things. Given how eventful this month has been, it helped me gain perspective on the happenings of the past few weeks and come up with new and creative ideas for how to deal with situations around here. Hopefully it’s been insightful in some way to you as well.
As I think about how I feel after doing this all month, I feel really good, not from any big sense of accomplishment (I wouldn’t feel like a loser or anything if I had missed a couple of days) but from gaining a very positive perspective about where our family is right now, what issues we’re dealing with, what we’ve accomplished, and how to focus more than I might normally on all of the achievements and strides we’ve made.
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