Books!
So, as an author, this may not be much of a surprise to anyone, but I have an obsession with books. To be exact, its fantasy fiction with focus on series. So, to be clear, I am talking like crazy creature status here, to the extent that I already have listened this morning for 26 minutes, I am listening at minimum for 400 minutes (6.5+ hours) a day and at max, I have hit over 800 minutes (13+ hours). In May, I listened to eBooks for 215 hours and in June I listened for 196.2 hours… I believe this is where my hyperfocus goes when I am not writing a book or creating some form of art (yet a lot of the time, I am drawing or creating while listening).
Now, my husband loves to watch TV and movies, so he is always happy when he puts something on the TV that makes me turn my book off to watch. The thing is, I love the fact that the books I listen to are all different. It hasn’t been preselected by societies depiction on what is good, so a lot of the books I read go to the wayside unless they are put into major motion pictures. I wear my Bluetooth most of the day so I can just click it, and the book continues in my ear. No one else is disturbed by the constant noise of it and it makes me content.
I don’t do the dramatized versions though, that to me feels more like it’s been edited to eliminate the imagination you need to create the pictures in your mind as you listen. I still have a nook account that I can read, but it’s not the same because then my eyes can’t be doing other things amidst the story. I keep thinking to myself that I need to get the first book I had published in audio form but then realize with startling clarity that I would be doing it myself lol and adding another task to my plate at the moment wouldn’t be the best idea. I tend to add too much to it as it is and as I type, out of my periphery I can see that I need to finish mowing the acre of grass in my yard.
Even though I am aware that I love listening to books constantly, I hadn’t realized that I have turned it into one of my hyper-focuses until I looked at the stats this morning. It is kind of odd that they tend to rotate. I have been making it a point to write something for the blog every morning to create a schedule for the time I dedicate to it. This should work on the days that I don’t have to go into work at 2:30 in the morning, but there may be times when I don’t get a blog post in due to extenuating circumstances. Yesterday for instance, I did write for about an hour, but it is one that is hard to write about. Not only am I doing my best to avoid saying too much about what happened, but I am ensuring that I stick to the reason I am writing it to begin with. I will finish it hopefully sometime this week if all goes to plan.
What are your hyper focuses and how do you make sure that you are able to enjoy them while living your life in a way that makes you happy?
