I don’t mean “slugging it” in the baseball sense – when you average multiple bases per at bat. I mean kind of the polar opposite. Just being a slug – maybe curled up in bed, lounging on the couch, just lazing around. Which is okay, in fact it’s great. I think if you want to slug it, go ahead and slug it for a few hours, or a day or two.
I think you’ll eventually get bored and fidgety (you might even come up with a new way to play Jenga). You will need to start doing things that get you moving or make you feel productive. Today has been a bit sluggish for me. Though I’ve still knocked a few tiny things off my unwritten to-do list. It almost felt like slugging it all day, really.
Slugging it to Think, but Act too
I planted a Steven’s Cranberry bush. I was hemming and hawing for the last few days over where the perfect spot for it would be. Then, I just decided to grab the plant, grab a shovel and figure it out. Just so happens, that once the shovel was in my hand I found a spot that I hadn’t previously considered. I think it will work out much better than the others.
I watered some seedlings underneath my grow light. I checked to make sure that my winter sown seeds received enough rain through the hole in their covers (they did). I sowed a couple dozen pea seeds in a raised garden bed. All of this took me under 15 minutes. I rewarded myself with some tea and sitting down to write a very sluggish post (this one). It’s another instance of slugging it effectively.
Energy Vampire Tasks vs. Energy Giver Tasks
So, this was not a zero day. But I legit have spent half an hour doing “work”, which was mostly just small tasks that gave me more energy than they took away. That’s all I was really looking for anyway. I just wanted to go with the flow and do what I can to keep sane while slugging it on the homestead.