Schedule a time to regularly email, write to, phone or visit

I did manage this for a little while, but I never managed to make it stick.

What I mean is not that I no longer email, write to, phone or visit anyone, but that I no longer schedule time for it. I just do it when it needs to be done or take a more intuitive approach—when I feel it is time these things need to be done. There’s just something about doing it that way that seems to work better. Friendship runs on its own timetable.

One of the things that was making me procrastinate on this goal was that I had included my grandparents on my list of people to write to. I felt it was important to keep in touch with them but I felt at a bit of a loss, because we don’t have much in common, particularly with my maternal grandparents.

I was supposed to go and visit them with my mum last weekend, but the terrible weather prevented me. It did provide me with a nice opportunity to write to them though, especially since my dad had given me a card to pass along to them for their wedding anniversary.

It’s nice to have made the first step. I guess I’ll see where it goes from here.

I have a basic schedule worked out. Now it is just a matter of sticking to it on a regular basis. I suspect it will also need revising from time to time, particularly when I find more people I’d like to keep in contact with.