Annoyances

Don't you hate it when you do something that you really hate doing, and then you find out that it's good for you, and you don't hate it as much as you thought you did? I do. I was challenged to do "Morning Pages," an exercise from Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way and I hate doing them. It takes me about an hour to do 3 8.5 x 11 pages longhand. I am entirely unwilling to get up early to do them, so that means that I have to find time to fit them in. Or, just back up my day an hour, which has other repercussions... So, I've been doing this dreaded task for a while and I just whine, but it feels good. I'm getting more work done after the daily gripe. It's too bad I don't gripe less after the exercise, but that's so unlikely as to be ridiculous. I do get some insights about a page and a half into it, so it works. So I do them. Annoying, huh?