[Recent Updates] Vol. 3: How to deal with 'my tendency to get easily distracted'

Good evening, this is Mizuka.

I am a dad spending every day with my 5-year-old (middle-year preschooler) daughter, my 1.5-year-old daughter, and my wife.

I live a life where I unravel the little snags of daily life with children by writing on note.

At the end of October

October is already coming to an end, isn't it?

Thank you all for your hard work this month as well.

This will be my final post for October.

Looking back, this past month has been quite eventful, both on note and outside of it.
Both on note and off.

As a result, I ended up updating note at a pace of about three times a week (Thursdays and Saturdays, and sometimes Tuesdays), so I think both areas progressed at a generally similar rhythm.

Seasonal changes and physical condition

That said, in the world outside of note, it is a season where physical condition inevitably plays a major role.

Getting a cold because it suddenly turned cold, or feeling like the days are longer for some reason even though my working hours haven't changed from summer because the sun sets earlier and evening turns into night in a flash—fatigue has been building up without me even realizing it.

I think October was a month where I vividly realized how difficult it is to adapt to the changing seasons.

How was your October?

The footsteps of winter are approaching little by little, aren't they?

How I deal with 'my tendency to get easily distracted'

By the way, I have had a certain personality quirk for a long time.

It is a tendency where if I have a scheduled event right in front of me, my consciousness and energy are strongly drawn to it.

I think I first became strongly aware of it when I was in junior high school.
I felt it keenly every time we had a two- or three-day period of final exams.

When the day before a test arrived, I could no longer think about anything other than the subjects for the next day.

This didn't really change, no matter how much I had studied in advance for the subjects on the first day of the tests.

So, at some point, I started intentionally studying in the exact opposite order, starting from the final day and the last subject of the tests.

Of course, for example, if there were '7 subjects over 3 days' of testing, I would decide on the entire schedule in advance, including which subjects to study and how many pages to cover, so that I could study enough for the 'first day's 2-3 subjects' by the day before the 'first day of testing'.

And then, from the day before the 'first day of testing,' I would just repeat the process of focusing on the subjects for the next day's test.

Once I started doing it this way, I was able to consistently get pretty good scores in every subject.

In that way, I think I have gradually learned how to handle my own characteristics of focus.

Time to look a little further ahead

Even now, at the core, I haven't changed from those days.

In my life with my wife and two preschool children, while most of my consciousness is taken up by the events and tasks right in front of me, I still stop every now and then to look at the landscape a little further ahead.

Then, I identify things like 'what I should do now' or 'what will cause trouble later if I don't get it done by this time,' and whenever I find a gap, I tackle them with my honed ability to focus.

I think this 'way of keeping distance from what is right in front of me' is an essential sense of balance for me, who gets tired easily despite being interested in many things .

Whether on note or elsewhere, there is, of course, a mountain of things I want to do.

But, don't rush, just take it at a pace you can manage right now.

With that feeling, I'd like to welcome November once again.

November begins on the Saturday of my next scheduled note post, but since I definitely won't be able to finish writing a 'October Review Note (Monthly Report),' it will probably be a 'Live Parenting Broadcast' instead~~.

That day is my wife's refresh day, and I'm planning to be on solo parenting duty, after all.

I usually post at 11:00 AM on Saturdays, but I'm thinking maybe I'll try posting in the evening the day after tomorrow... I'll think about it.

So, everyone, please cherish your own rhythm and your own comfortable way of spending time.

Thank you for another wonderful time here on note this month.

See you later.

[Bonus] Yesterday, I suddenly thought, 'Maybe I can do this now!', and created an
image to use instead of a closing remark at the end of my posts. I feel like it turned out quite well, and it's made writing notes a little more fun again for me, Mizuka-kun.

Scrapbooking, patchwork, and just combining various things—it seems that's just my nature.

This is a magazine that collects articles reflecting on my note posts since I started in August 2025, written in the form of monthly reports that also touch on actual access data, along with my thoughts on the future ↓

This is a magazine that collects notes written as 'educational parenting essays,' where I occasionally weave in lessons learned from books, video content, and articles by other note creators while writing my daily parenting essays.