by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I find a little trick that helps me write something “for the record” each day.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I write. I tell myself that every day. Most days that is true. Most days I will write something of some substance or “for the record.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have worked from home for the past six months (almost seven by now). I am fortunate to be able to do so. I am fortunate to be paid while doing that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am not very good at working from home in that I tend to work 45 to 50 hours a week from home. There just seems to be something that applies to work every evening. Maybe I will learn\u2014maybe not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Therefore, if I don’t pay attention, I have days when I don’t write something that qualifies as substance or for the record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Along comes a new trick. In my paper journal\u2014journal writing is one of the few practices I recommend for everyone\u2014I make a note at the bottom of each page: WDYWT? That is short for, “What Did You Write Today?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The following morning, I write a note next to WDYWT? Tomorrow morning I will note that I wrote this blog post\u2014for what it is worth, that counts as something of substance or for the record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is a little trick. I’ve only used it the past couple of weeks. Perhaps in a few more weeks we shall “return to normal,” and this little trick will no longer be useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lessons? Pay attention. Find little tricks or whatever that keep us on track. Use them as long as they are useful, but no longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips I find a little trick that helps me write something “for the record” each day. I write. I tell myself that every day. Most days that is true. Most days I will write something of some substance or “for the record.” I have worked from home for the past six months (almost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,421,58,292,306,5],"tags":[171,422,178,295,307,128],"class_list":["post-3235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adapting","category-remote-work","category-systems","category-tools","category-visibility","category-writing","tag-adapting","tag-remote-work","tag-systems","tag-tools","tag-visibility","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3236,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/3236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}