Last Friday, I made huge progress in getting my first draft structured, even adding some new words to the overall word count. However, my hyper focus on this task meant that it took nearly all day.
As a result, I feel like I have been on catch up. Add to that hurting my back at the weekend, I feel like I am behind.
I couldn’t tell you exactly how I am behind but it just feels like I am in the state of constant catch up and it’s exhausting. When life feels overwhelming like this, I find myself doing numbing behaviours like doom scrolling, revenge bedtime procrastination or binge watching. This only makes things worse.
But just when I start to get really frustrated with myself, I remember to do the Friend Trick.
This is where I imagine I am talking to a friend who is in my position. Instead of accusations and shaming, I would remind them of what they have accomplished; I would point out how hard it is to be productive when in pain; I would be kind and loving; I would encourage them to be realistic, to take things one step at a time and just concentrate on doing the next right thing (as advised by Anna from Frozen and Emily P Freeman). Are you listening, friend?
Notes From My Day 