Pathetic effort.

So, I thought I could use Pinterest to boost my effort to write more frequently. Epic fail. It amazed me, though, how thoroughly linking something I liked, Pinterest, to something I procrastinated, writing, sucked the fun and attention right out of the thing I liked. I can't tell you the last time I logged on to pinterest. Aversion therapy at its finest. I remember the Lung Association coming to a place I worked to do a workshop on smoking cessation. This was about 20 years ago and although I went to the class I really had no intention of quitting smoking. Aversion therapy was one of their methods. They referred to it as negative association. The idea was that you wear a rubber band around your wrist and every time you thought of smoking you would SNAP the crap out of your own arm. Therefore, creating the negative association of pain and smoking. Yeah, I didn't try it. In fact, I'm pretty sure I mocked the people who did try it. I wonder if I could use aversion therapy to sever ties with Facebook the way I cut off pinterest. Hmmmm.

I think I must try.

I will write commentary on things people post on Facebook. My goal is to write once a week. Seems easy enough, right? Well, it hasn't been. How can I love to write and yet when I try to write consistently it becomes something I avoid like cleaning the toilets!?

Hopefully one of two things will happen here. Either I will begin to write more consistently or I will begin to avoid Facebook. I would consider either outcome a win.


Good luck.

Pinterest - it Peaks my Interest

I have decided to attempt to choose 52 things (projects, recipes, styles, whatever) from Pinterest and execute rather than just browse. I got this idea because I stumbled across a photography tip for capturing a great pic of the Christmas tree. It worked so well that I decided it may be a worthy idea to put this into practice on a regular basis. You know, actually do something instead of just surfing the internet. Novel idea, right? So in the name of A.J. Jacobs, my favorite stunt writer, I am going to write about what I do.

I am following 35 people on Pinterest. Those 35 people have "pinned" 72,657 items. When you start up, pinterest gives you several people to start following. Of course, many of those suggested friends have over five thousand pins and are probably considered "Power Pinterest Users" or something like that. It seems like such a waste of time if you aren't going to use the ideas you've pinned and who can possibly have tried the 11,934 things they've pinned (Gift Guru).

Of my 35 following - 24 are people I actually know in real life. This includes my daughter and her best friend from high school, several ladies from my church and even my pastor! Those 24 people have only pinned 5,311 items with the most for any one person being 2,204. The least was zero.

In an effort to waste less time on the internet, find something and follow through on my intentions and write more (3 of my New Year's resolutions), I am going to pick one thing each week for 52 weeks put it into use then blog about the process and results. I will each week in my blog give you the pin (which you will also see if you follow me on Pinterest) that I am planning for the next week.

Here we go -- (feel free to join in and try my ideas and/or suggest pins you think I should try.)

Week 1