Dateline 6-7-2017

I'm really liking this go with the flow approach to the week that I've been experimenting with. Any other week, I might have been a little frustrated with how yesterday ended up going down but with this new mentality, it felt like a perfectly fine day.

That's not to say that yesterday was a bad day in any way, it's more the order of events and impromptu changes in plans that may have frustrated me before I decided to put in the effort to lessen my expectations as to how I spend my free time.

Usually, I beat myself up for not sticking to my schedule because it makes me feel nonproductive even when I successfully complete all of my mandatory tasks for the day. Though I rarely fail to meet a deadline that I have set in stone, I can be a little wishy-washy when it comes to my extra time, so I'm trying to train myself to be happy with any type of bonus efforts, instead of being disappointed by what I didn't manage to get to.

Yesterday, I started out by sleeping in, which wasn't anything I planned. For some reason, I woke in the middle of the night and it took me forever to go back to sleep, so I made up for this deficit by staying in bed for another couple hours when normally I would force myself to get up.

Though I wasn't a fan of starting late, this new technique, of staying in bed until I get at least six hours of sleep versus the four and a half hours from my average slumber, keeps me in a calmer state of mind than I am while navigating the day with a sleep deprived head.

There's a weird thing that comes during the initial period of increasing your sleep where you wake feeling even more tired than before. I don't know if it's because my position in the sleep cycle is off to where I'm now waking during a deeper state than I'm used to, or if it's just a psychological feast that follows the famine.

Either way, I hope that someday this six-hour sleep schedule eventually because second nature to me which may then lead to waking with a clearer mind because even now, I've been up for an hour and I still feel like my head is in the cloud.

Yesterday, I woke up in this same daze and rather than just jump right into work, I decided to take a stroll up to the store to buy a can of caffeine when normally, I would have made sure that all of my obligations were met before I would make that sort of venture.

When I got home from the store, I got an email about a job with forms that I had to fill out for the next stage of hiring, which, though important, is another task that I would normally put off until later in the day when the rest of my work was done. Rather than wait, I filled out the forms right away and moved on.

It wasn't until about noon that I finally posted my Daily Breaker post for the day, which has grown to be a task that I aim to complete by 10:00 in the AM, so the early PM post started to get me a little nervous and I really don't know why because I'm between jobs right now and all I have is time. Once I reminded myself of this fact, I then calmly moved on to my next task.

My Saturday Night Live viewing, though later than usual, went pretty smooth because I spent over an hour optimizing my Fire TV so that it interacts with my internet more efficiently to where I can now watch a full episode without all the constant buffering that I've been experiencing since the last system upgrade. 

By the time I finished my SNL review, I was already nearing the end of my day, at least the portion set aside for my nonsense. Just when I was ready to move on to some optional task, I got a text from my sister to see if I could babysit my nephew today.

Since she gave me plenty of notice, I decided to shift gears once again and knocked out today's viewing of SNL to where now all I have to do is write the review so that I can spend the rest of the day stress-free as I hang out with my favorite kid without any work on my mind.

Now, it's time to stop ramble, get my head out of this sleep cloud, write and publish said review and give in to the rest of the day.

As always, I'll let you know how things turn out when I check in around this time tomorrow.

Talk to you then,

The Wicker Breaker