It's been a frustrating and challenging week in Snowden Enterprises but also a great week.
I'll not bore you with the ins and outs of it all but let's just say that the danger you run when out there for yourself is that it just takes one blockage to stop you in your tracks. That's bad enough but being stopped in your tracks even for a little while let's the seeds of doubt about what you're doing creep in and like many weeds they take hold way too quickly and become a massive blot on your landscape.
So what do you do? Well the thing that works best for me is a mental health day - a term I first learned when working in New Zealand and Australia...once in a while you just had to stop, opt out of life, watch TV all day and forget everything. It really works. You regroup, refocus and re-energise.
So today has been my mental health day. After a morning of meetings and lack of enthusiasm I came home, went a big walk in the sun, did some domestic stuff and watched TV (there may have been a wee snooze in there too).
Where am I now at? Well, back, focused, determined...and a few lessons / reminders of lessons better off:
1. Focus on your goals and how to achieve them...when blockages appear then work round them rather than running into them. You'll save so much energy.
2. Be positive and engaging even when you don't feel like it - it makes people want to get behind you and help you even when it's not their job to do so (I won't name names but they'll get a big thank you when the time comes).
3. When you're having a mental health day fess up to it - friends will send you lots of encouragement and reinforcement
4. Recognise you're being self indulgent - allow yourself to have your mental health day but recognise beforehand it's only a day and commit that by the end of it you'll be refocused, re-energised and ready to get on with it cos if it's worth it then it's not going to come easy.
5. Get some perspective. You're in a very fortunate place if all you're concerned about is getting everything on an exciting project to line up. Other people in your life and beyond have genuine issues and tragedies going on in their lives.
6. Get even more perspective. Acknowledge when you've made amazing progress, when you've shared you're ideas and people are behind you, when you've engaged professionals in the field and they congratulate you for the extensive thought you've put into what you're doing, when you've made new connections and pushed forward other aspects of your project.
So the "to do" list has been written for tomorrow morning and we'll be back on top of the world because if you don't strive for your dreams then who else is going to?
Whilst kicking my own butt I have...
...HUNG OUT AT...Govanhill Trinity Church to hear (and marginally take part in) an amazing community event in memory of the church organist and in aid of the Prince and Princess Of Wales Hospice Brick by Brick appeal. Mr Tom Potter was playing drums amazingly as usual but as part of his jazz band The Williams Quartet. They also played with the Conservatoire Saxophony Quartet. An amazing night of young talent, community, fundraising and rememberance. Check out The Williams Quartet on Facebook...
...WINED ON...a lovely Argentinian Malbec at Alston Bar and Beef. Having been there the Friday previous I was even more impressed that the manager and members of staff remembered me (and I mean that in a "good service by them" way rather than "bad behaviour by me" way...
...DINED ON...a lovely seafish platter at the newly renovated and reinvented Hyndland Fox (previously Peckhams) on Clarence Drive. A beautiful setting and lovely food.
Until next week...
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