Oof, this one’s rough. But it’s *worth* it. I remember too clearly that heading-for-burnout mental state where everything felt urgent, everything felt critical, nothing felt like something I could afford to drop. I used to make records of my time, trying to justify (to who?) why I felt so exhausted: See! Look! No spare time, […]
Found this in my meanderings earlier in the week, and it was hyper-relevant, since I found it while spending an hour procrastinating for diving into some revisions I’m supposed to be doing :’D Worth watching to the end. I’ve actually blogged about the photography story he mentions before, only I’ve heard the story with an
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I read this Tumblr post on Pinterest yesterday morning. Someone was trying to be motivating, starting with ‘Never have a zero day; read one page, or write one line’ etc etc. And I was like, You know what? Screw this. I’m having a zero day. It’s been a busy term (term three seems to always
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A partial repost, because I’d forgotten about this paradigm I spontaneously invented a couple of years ago until Saturday just past, when I managed to – such fun – lock myself out of my house. Harrumph. $160 for a locksmith is NOT how I wanted to spend money right now, thanks very much. I could
On Processing Mistakes Healthily: 3, 2, 1 Read More »
