As I was writing the review for November, I was angry at myself. Why was I so out of it last month? In all areas of my life?
I didn't want to allow excuses to enable that type of behavior but I was puzzled. So I went back to the excel sheet where I record the main 20 things I monitor daily. I looked at what I was consistently avoiding.
What I noticed was that Nov was pretty good until about the 15th. It was the last two weeks where I shut down. I just got many hours of sleep and still woke up with no energy. And that affected everything. Health wasn't the culprit though - I just didn't have any enthusiasm to do anything. A part of me thinks, I can only do so much before I need a proper break or vacation.
One other observation that I am happy about it a habit I started in Nov. As part of my daily check-in process, I decided to write one thing that I was happy about. This is specific to result oriented tasks only. It was when I looked at what I had done for the first two weeks of Nov that I decided that Nov wasn't really as bad as I initially thought yesterday.
My mind has a tendency to focus on negative things. I need to double down on habits that remind me to be more data oriented than the bias my mind gravitates to.
I didn't want to allow excuses to enable that type of behavior but I was puzzled. So I went back to the excel sheet where I record the main 20 things I monitor daily. I looked at what I was consistently avoiding.
What I noticed was that Nov was pretty good until about the 15th. It was the last two weeks where I shut down. I just got many hours of sleep and still woke up with no energy. And that affected everything. Health wasn't the culprit though - I just didn't have any enthusiasm to do anything. A part of me thinks, I can only do so much before I need a proper break or vacation.
One other observation that I am happy about it a habit I started in Nov. As part of my daily check-in process, I decided to write one thing that I was happy about. This is specific to result oriented tasks only. It was when I looked at what I had done for the first two weeks of Nov that I decided that Nov wasn't really as bad as I initially thought yesterday.
My mind has a tendency to focus on negative things. I need to double down on habits that remind me to be more data oriented than the bias my mind gravitates to.
