Well…last week was…interesting.. I experienced burnout for the first time in a long time. Well…… maybe it wasn’t burnout, to be honest with you.I have not been reading, or anything and my creative well went dry. I learned that to write and write well I must consume stories to keep my creative well full. Julia Cameroon discusses that in the book “The Artist Way.” Primarily you have limited creativity at any one time, so you got to keep refilling your creative tank so to speak.
I finally bit the bullet and purchased a year subscription to BBG. It was waaaay cheaper to do that then to pay it monthly so even though I have commitment issues I told myself I was going to follow the BBG plan for a whole year. It even tells you what to eat and provide shopping list. This is also one of the ways I am reducing decision fatigue. A post is coming up on THAT so be on the lookout!
My workouts are brutal. I mean I do push myself to the limit with them. Also, I have noticed that every time I up the intensity of a workout I get tired all over again. So much so that my day goes like this Wake up getting caffeinated, go to the Gym, come home shower and crawl into bed. Then wake up work on client project then go back to sleep. Heh, I am hoping that I get used to BBG however brutal it becomes in upcoming weeks. I got shit to do! I threw out my scale because I was letting the number on it dictate how my day would go. Now I only get weighed when I go to the dr. I am working on a post as to why i “broke” up with the scale
Do you want to know what is weird? Last week I started Wolves of Winter on audio and couldn’t understand it. Granted I was dead tired when I tried it as I had not slept well in about a week. My dr gave me some strong sleeping pills, and now I feel lots better. Yesterday while cleaning my apartment I put Wolves of Winter back on audio and I UNDERSTOOD IT. Do YOU have a hard time understanding audiobook when you are tired? I know I am new to the audiobook world, but I would still think my dang brain would process the info no matter how tired I was. I was sadly mistaken.
I did not get much reading done I am going to change that this week as I need the stories to percolate in my head to create better stories for my clients. You can’t create from an empty vessel. I used to think that going on dates with yourself and all of that was a bunch of crap until I tried it and the whole The Artist Way did help me out. I need to get my book back out again and start doing some of the excersises again.
I am reading with my eyes Internet Famous, and at first, I was all like meh but because it is an ARC book I pushed on and now halfway through i am really liking it. It deals with internet bullies which i think all teenagers should know about.
I struggle to understand audiobooks full stop. They only time I can handle them is if I’m sitting quietly doing nothing but focusing on the words and if I’m doing that I might as well just be reading the thing myself.
BBG sounds brutal but I wish you luck on the weight loss / fitness front! I’m trying to find something that works for me (and that I’ll stick to) but so far no luck…
Good luck with BBG. If you are tired it can be hard to slip into a new story in any format. Ilike to start a new book /audio when I am fresh.