It’s been another busy week on the commitment front, as I spent the majority of my creative time formatting and editing the From the Dark Side anthology. I just finished adding the final story Saturday night and it looks beautiful. There are twenty contributors to the anthology, some names you’ll be sure to recognize, like Kate Sherrod, Jake Bible, Drew Beatty, James Melzer… even our Podcaturday partner, Acadia Einstein whipped up a sonnet to contribute to the charity anthology.
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Remember the other day, when I blogged about excuses? Well, this isn’t a rehash of that same topic, but it is similarly veined. Instead of talking about excuses today, I want to talk about laziness.

When I was a kid, my mom liked to tell me how lazy I was. “You are so, lazy! You’re lazy like so-and-so. I can’t believe how lazy you are…” Blah, blah, blah. I didn’t realize until adulthood that most of the time when people insult you on that level, it’s really a reflection on their own inadequacies, and though I love her dearly, perhaps all that time dear old mum was reflecting on her own lack of motivation. Who knows. What i do know is that despite the crippling side-effects of being told I was lazy all the time, it definitely prompted me to take a good look at EVERYTHING I did all the time.

Was I approaching my life from a half-assed stand? Did I lack motivation? Was I really lazy?
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