Late Start – The Climb #826

Friday 28^th May 2021

I woke up so late today and I have no idea why. I’m not sure what it is, but I always tend to feel groggy when I oversleep. As a result, it took until afternoon for me to feel even vaguely human.

As a result I constantly felt behind on everything.

I started this daily log last week that basically has my core writing hours and a space for me to enter what I did that hour. I can tell the good days from the bad as the bad ones have gaps where there’s an hour where I’d not worked on anything significant.

It’s made me aware of research rabbit holes I fall into. I like to think that one day all this stuff will be useful but when I’ve got a novel to write and other tasks to be done, it’s not the best use of my time right now.

I try not to be too hard on myself. You can’t be productive all the time, and there do need to be hours when you work on all the little things. Not every hour can be deep work.

My afternoon was more productive. I got two big writing sessions done. I managed to find C a vaccine slot at our local vaccination centre (that will save me hearing them constantly moan!) and I also managed to get some Fortnite in. The season ends in just over a week and I’ve really not been playing so I’ve been trying to rapidly level up to 100 before next season starts.

I’ve been saying lately that my task list looks incredibly clear. It’s picked up a lot of stuff over the course of the week. I’d also wanted to go out geocaching one day and I’ve not managed that. I’ll forgive a lot if I’m writing words but I feel I need to retain some of that Monday morning energy for later in the week.

I’ve got a number of little writing projects I want to do, but I’m loathe to start anything if it’s just going to push some health goals to the bottom of the list.

I have decided I want to give up caffeine again. That… is going to be painful. I get terrible headaches coming off caffeine but it’s all baby steps to getting myself healthier.

I feel it’s going to be a slow journey to get myself back to where I was. I have this feeling that if I don’t do it now then I’m never going to get back there. So lots of baby steps this week, which have been good. Some goals missed as well, which is bad.

And whilst things are a bit of a rollercoaster, I do think after a couple of years of hell, my health is in turn around. It’s been a long slow process, and the pandemic certainly helped to make it worse.

I heard something this past week which said that health is the foundation of all. So perhaps I should just focus on that and getting my current writing project done. Everything else can wait.

Maybe I’d have time for it all as well, if I didn’t wake up quite so late.