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Typically I would have big hairy audacious goals for the month, but after finding out what was wrong with me, I realized that I couldn’t keep burning the candle at both ends. The ironic thing is I used to feel that way about people who talked all about the spoon theory and how they have only two spoons for that day. I could not comprehend a life where getting myself dressed and out the door took a bunch of spoons. Now i totally get it. Some days all I have is one single spoon, and that spoon will go to either this blog or client work. My clients deserve nothing but my best, AND they are paying, so clients ALWAYS come first. That may mean I will be in my pajamas all day, but it is what it is. With the Synthroid I take now I still have my one spoon day, but o a lot of days I can have as many as five! That means I can work out and write for this blog AND do client work. As I have never in my whole damn life ever had a problem doing stuff. I remember somewhat wistfully I must confess the days that I had the mental and physical energy to work out then do a bunch of things and still be able to go out to a bar with friends. Now I am a modern-day hermit. As I am dismantling all my ways of getting shit done I am in an experimental stage of trying to figure out what works best for me. I hope that by the new year I will have a system in place that will allow me to increases my spoons. November and December I will be testing out different workflows. I will be tracking everything using exist.io
Track EVERYTHING that I eat into weight watcher app.
Before anyone knew the real reason, I had gained so much weight mom got paranoid that my fatness was going to be my undoing and talked me into going to weight watchers with her. At first, I was discouraged as I seem to be GAINING weight no marker what I did. Then I started taking Synthroid and gave a half-assed effort at actually following the program. When I went to get my blood tested again, they weighed me, and I had lost 10 pounds! This lit a fire under my ass, and now even if it is going to bust my point budget, I still track it. I am hoping that by putting everything that can be tracked in exist.io and that exist.io will come up with a profound insight such as when you excursive hard then you eat a shit ton of food. Or something.. If nothing else then I can always tell myself that as long as I keep track with what I eat then some weight is bound to come off.
Get back into my exercise habit.
I know I know here I am talking about not having enough spoons and yet I still find the time to do my BBG workouts. However, I have an explanation. Working out and working out hard always makes me feel better and helps my anxiety. Did I need to pick one of the most challenging programs? Probably not but damn it when I am done with whatever BBG throws my way I feel like I can move mountains and I almost always get in a better mood afterward. If I am a bitch, my friend’s first question is always “Hillary did you workout yet?” So it is back to BBG I go.
Read alll the books
I am here to tell you that fog brain is no joke. For the longest time, I couldn’t focus enough actually to read. Then last week realized that for the first time in two years I had laser sharp focus and blew through books. I was so happy I may or may not have cried tears of joy.
Try out skillshare
One of the things I want to do in 2019 is to invest in myself and my blog. I think I have done all I can with the free advice. There are some courses I want to take, but that is a whole other post. I am lucky in that another blogger that I admire handed out her affiliate code to Skillshare and I, of course, had to see if it was worth the hype. I have only had it for a few days, so the jury is still out on that site
Put ALL of my review copies on my book tracker thingie I hacked together USING Trello
I don’t even know how many books that I have. But I am hoping that once I get ALL of my unread books into the book to read in one place, then that will help me get to books and not have a zillion ARC’s and library book that goes back unread.
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And that is all I feel like I can do while I am crafting a new system that won’t leave me burnt out. And I can slay 2019.
I honestly don’t understand how I used to get so much done in a single day before my chronic illness, so I know what you mean! I hope you find a system that works for you and that you’re doing great with your goals!
Thank You!! I have finally accepted that i am in fact a
now and i have to really watch in what I invest my time in. I used yo be the queen of productivity but these days I consider it a job well done for getting out of bed.
I honestly don’t understand how I used to get so much done in a single day before my chronic illness, so I know what you mean! I hope you find a system that works for you and that you’re doing great with your goals!
Thank You!! I have finally accepted that i am in fact a
now and i have to really watch in what I invest my time in. I used yo be the queen of productivity but these days I consider it a job well done for getting out of bed.