Discipline

Ever since 2008 I've been running intermittent daily miles on an elliptical.

I've gone through two elliptical machines (I'm on my 3rd) and I've run over 2,000 miles.

Now, occasionally I'll take a day (or several off).

Sometimes (regrettably) I'll take nearly an entire semester off (due to fatigue from teaching both college and high school classes, etc.).

But now I've come to a conclusion: on nights I do not run my miles, I need to write at least one thing (a poem, a paragraph, a line, a page, a chapter, a scene), or I need to research at least five agents and submit queries to them (if appropriate).

No matter what, I need to discipline myself so that I am always doing something to better myself and my situation.