Trying to Stop the Days from Blurring Together

Apr 26

Popping in for a quick weekly update. This week was a tough one. I tried taking two days off of work, but ended up working a total of 14 hours on those two days. (In fairness, my team did point out multiple times that I said I wouldn't be working, but I just couldn't bring myself to step away.) Which might not be the worst thing because Saturday, my first completely free day that I was not working, I started to lose my mind.

I finished watching Four Weddings and a Funeral on Hulu (the series, not the movie, very good) and Season 3 of Atypical on Netflix (also very good), but I just felt so... lazy. I'm not great at sitting around doing nothing unplanned, but there's not much of anything I want to be doing. Which has left me in a bit of a conundrum. I think I'm going to try to organize some digital files this week. That sounds like a fun activity that would make some progress and scoot some things off of my to do list.

I've realized the problem for me about not feeling like I'm accomplishing anything at all between Friday and Monday is that I feel like I haven't really done anything between stopping working and starting working again, which is making it feel more like I never stopped. So that's a thing I'm working on this week. Trying to figure out how to make the days not all bleed into one another.

Maybe I need to pick up using the gratitude app again so I can at least try to think about what actually occurred during the day. I've still been using the 1 second every day app, but those are definitely starting to blur all together at this point.

Suggestions are welcome. How are you dealing with all of the days blurring together?

Podcast News:

Last week's Money Stories episode led to my mom and I having an interesting conversation about money. Did it spark conversations for anyone else?
Thanks for everybody who reached out about the COVID-19 episode. It felt vulnerable to share with y'all how things have really been going, but the feedback made me feel not quite as alone.
I'll be editing my last pre-recorded episode this week to release on Sunday. Can't wait to share it with y'all.
I'm also excited to start brainstorming what should come next.

Self Improvement of the Week

I downloaded a podcast called Radical Candor (also a book) of which the purpose is to learn to create a culture of feedback, build a cohesive team and achieve great results. Very excited about it.
I journaled a bit this week to try to figure out what the heck happened during my nervous breakdown about not accomplish anything on Saturday. No results, but I did feel a little bit better.
I put some of the muffins that I made this week in the freezer. This is a step in the right direction because I keep overmaking food and then it goes bad - or forgetting to put bread in the freezer before it goes moldy. So this is a good step in the direction of not wasting food.

I hope each of you has a great week. You deserve it.

xo Chrystina