A little Every Day - Week 12 - Repost

This week has been both a tough one and a hopeful one. This week, I left my most recent job because it was affecting my mental and physical health to the point where I couldn’t do it anymore. No one should have to work in a job that gives you panic attacks because if you say the wrong thing your supervisors will make your life a living hell for the rest of the shift. I have mentioned previously in these posts that I don’t do well without structure. Despite having the weight of the old job being lifted, I was starting to feel anxious and restless and couldn’t kick the feeling that I had forgotten to do something. Add to that the feeling of dread I had whenever I was thinking about finances and the fact that my partner couldn’t support us both and I didn’t have a job lined up, I wasn’t doing very well.

I made the decision this week to start exercising regularly and joined a gym at a very decent price a mere 5 minute walk from my front door. This is probably one of the best decisions I have made this week. Just getting out of the house would have made a big difference to my mental wellbeing, working on my physical health and burning off the anxious energy I was building up was like nothing else. While I couldn’t do anything to change my employment status except keep applying for jobs, this felt like I was able to work towards something. I have never been in very good shape, plagued by physical maladies and the like, but now my health is getting back on track and I am at the point where I am ready to give being active a good go.

Most of my writing this week can be summed up as job applications. Between the half a dozen or so cover letters I wrote I also managed to get a decent chunk of chapter 11 completed for the first Lonely World novel. This has been one of those weeks where I have to remind myself that progress no matter how small or slow is still progress. I have found myself at that midpoint in the novel where I always falter and so long as I keep pushing little by little, I know I will get past this hurdle and then the end will be in sight. One other thing I worked on this week was returning to my old series from the previous blog where I was reviewing Chip and Dan Heath’s Made to Stick. In the original series I got through the first two sections of six and unravelled their theory. I would love to continue this and finish not only reading but reviewing the book at some point but came to the conclusion that now is probably not the time to do so.

Thank you for joining me for this brief recap of this week’s progress. I hope you are enjoying being on this journey with me!