Recently, I’ve been feeling awful, just kind of dragging myself through things, and I have a great deal to do for class, regular work, freelance work and apparently if I don’t wash my clothes, they won’t clean themselves. Design flaw.
I can’t figure out if the way to out from under is to just power through it, work just as hard as I can to complete things. It’s been pretty hard to focus, but I’ll feel better for having accomplished something, and then I’ll rest better and feel better, and get into a positive cycle instead of a negative one.
Or maybe I should quit telling myself to work and power through, and actually acknowledge that I find myself zoning out instead of completing anything. In that case, I should shut off the computer, have something nice to eat, read a book for a while, and come back to it later when I’m in a better mindset. I’ll do better work because of it. and feel accomplished and get into that positive cycle.
But mostly I’ve been compromising between the power-through and self-care methods by eating horribly and doing sloppy work. Adulthood!
I’m going through the same. This weekend was supposed to be productive.. but then I kept getting distracted. I think I just need to find out what works for me.
I’ve had success with both methods, but trying to do both is just. not. happening. Good luck getting out of your funk, too!
Life needs cheat codes.
cntl-shift-c motherlode would be nice!