This month wins

[jack]

This month wins:

• Hourly brain self check-ins on many days
• WD-40 to bike chain
• Bought bike lube
• Bought running top, shorts
• Sorted piles of post
• Parkrun time 37:33min (down below 40min)
• Started new meds
• Petted alpacas
• Work appraisal
• Set up weights on patio
• Reprogrammed thermostate for summertime
• Bought little animal clips to identify people's cups/glasses
• Sorted bathroom stockpile and cabinet
• Cleaned half of the kitchen and living room
• Bought filing trays
• Cleared nettles on drive
• Went to Oxford and saw the shark
• Lost pandemic legacy
• Finished work project

When I put it like that, it sounds like I was pretty productive! But it's hard to persuade my brain until (maybe) enough areas of my life start feeling like they're under control that it starts to slowly get my brain used to the idea that I might be adulting ok even if I haven't done something incredibly useful in the last few minutes :)

Comments

[jack]

*hugs* Thank you!

> Sometimes my brain gets after me, even when it's been productive, if there's a specific thing that needed doing that didn't get done on any given day

Oh yes, I pretty much take that for granted. Even worse, when something DIDN'T particularly need to be done today but I got fixated on doing it today because I was optimistic earlier and added too many things to a list... But even WITHOUT that, it's hard to judge whether what I've done is reasonable unless it EXACTLY matches a list I made earlier. Oh well, I think I'm getting better :)

[silveradept]

Yes, it can be an effort to look at what got done and judge it accordingly, rather than trying to see how well it matched the list that you put together earlier.

Excelsior on progress.