Over the last few months I have been at a loss for words.  I am not sure what to call it, or if I need to call it anything.  A writer might call it “writers block”.  Well, with all the follow-up questions and the details needed when one states they are a “writer” I’ll pass on calling my case “writers block”.  I do have a self-published book, “My Aumakua” as well as a self-published pamphlet “Can’t Sell, Can Sell” both available on Amazon (Never miss an opportunity to plug).  I am also working on a second novel titled “Scraping Bottom” and a few movie screenplays, as well as this blog.  I still don’t feel I qualify as a writer as it is not my profession.  I don’t answer “surfer” when someone asks “So, what do you do”?  I can’t put a name on my difficulty in coming up with new words partly because I feel like my wheels are all pulling in different directions.  Has something like this ever happened to you?

I have a lot of things I want to get done and I have realized that the problem I may be having is that I am not making the time to check them off the list.  It’s not a matter of not having the time, but making the time.  My good friend is on a journey within himself right now and he has ignited a few fires in me through his seemingly  inexhaustible energy to get focused and true my aim.  (Check out his website here: http://www.built4surf.com )  The equation I gave him in one of our discussions about the time I have in a day is this: (Family)+(Income)+(Personal Goals)=33+33+33=99.99% of the day. Like everyone who read that, including myself, I know that it’s not that simple.  Those three variables are ever changing and being adjusted, ebbing and flowing, if you will.

So where does that leave me?  Well, I’ve written this which I can tell you was about as hard as getting off the couch after work, putting my running shoes on and going for a run.  Not very easy, but actually, not that hard.  I guess sometimes you just have to get off your ass and lace those things up, whatever they may be.