by AthenaCat42 » Mon Jul 06, 2015 8:18 am
Thanks Krystalargo!! How are you doing with your goals?
For myself it has been an interesting few days ... wrote up my ideas for my emails for my team to review, but no one responded. I thought maybe it was because of the Independence Day weekend (though not everyone in the groups are in the US), and I have been feeling out of whack with scheduling ... I want to work M-F, take weekends off & do chores & rest ... but, say, I hurt Wednesday and don't work, so then I feel like I should make it up on Saturday, etc. What that means is I constantly feel unbalanced an my house is a complete wreck, which makes things like eating on schedule challenging because my tiny kitchen is cluttered with dirty dishes & etc.
So I decided to "take a weekend" and continued working on getting my home cleaned up (which has not been done in many long months): cobwebs are down, dishes are washed, floor is mopped, rooms are dusted, bathroom is clean, sheets are washed, mattress is flipped. Bedroom needs attention. Did usual "weekend" things I haven't done in a while like copy off pictures from Dropbox to my computer, then deleting them from my phone & iPad. Backed up my TV shows & movies. VERY PRODUCTIVE, and my house feels really good to be in now, and it's super easy to immediately clean up dishes after use.
Buuuuttt ... wow I hurt. I took yesterday off and felt better by the end of the day, no gasping for breath, could actually move around, even picked up a bread twisty in the evening that I dropped on the floor at breakfast. Yesterday my whole body hurt, today it's my back. But I feel tired, spacey, out of it, and as much as I want to work, the idea of it actually makes me want to cry so I think I need to find other ways to be productive.
I have several projects I haven't been able to get to, like organize my pictures ... I want to write up my recipe blogs but I can't find the pictures that go with the recipes! I want to finish getting all my DVDs copied as MP4s and into iTunes. I have a box of papers & stuff I need to go through. I have decided to spend an hour each evening "after work" to work on each of these, and categorized them into 5 groups. Today's category is "blog".
As much as I want to work on my PPP, I know I need to have a brain, and I'm very out of it right now, so I think today would be best spent working toward Blog, which means typing up recipes & going through pictures folders ... and setting a timer so I only spend 15 minutes on the computer, and then take a 15 minute lie-down break. The irony is that I don't know if this is a good decision or way to spend my day because I can feel my brain isn't clicking right ... which sounds like it means I'm doing the right thing by not doing something "important" or "difficult" or outside my comfort zone.
As for the emails ... I REALLY really really REALLY wish I could get some feedback on my writing. I am apprehensive about it because it is hard for me / new to me, I haven't spoken to these people (including family) for 9+ years, most of them for more than 15 years, and in the past when people have reviewed my writings they commented how much my "pain voice" was coming through and what I was writing wasn't good ... which is in large part why I took a break from growing my business ... if I couldn't communicate effectively how could I possibly hope to get any business, any clients, coming in / coming back?
I hope you all are doing well, and I look forward to hearing about your progress!!