Today was a bit rough around the edges…probably the most I have 'pushed' my limits thus far. It also didn't help that I seemed far more emotional and vulnerable then I usually am. I had less clarity and more confusion, do not think this was a challenge related issue, more just a personal shift of unknown reasons.
My first slip up was at work, I started looking into a bill from a gas company, and next thing I knew, it was 15 minutes of me researching why the gas rates went up, what they had filed with the state, ect ect. Most of the research wasn't even for me, it was for a coworker who lives near me. When I realized my level of straying, I shut down immediately.
Then when I got home from work, my Dell order of a back up hard drive and new webcam arrived. Did I plug in the back up hard drive and get to work on PC clean up like I was supposed to? No, of course not, I plugged in the webcam, and played with that far too long. I even messaged my brother to see if he was available to test the webcam for a bit since I had read of some compatibly issues between Vista and the program I wanted to use. We didn't chat online, but probably had 10 messages back and forth, and I was playing with my new toy for FAR too long.
I ended the evening on the PC with some actual clean up work and some minor research on operating systems and optimizing vista. Will continue to work on overhauling the two PC's we have over the weekend. Just need to stay disciplined and stay focused. If I stray again on the PCs, might have to just hold off on the clean up task until the challenge is over, we shall see.
Sigh, bit disappointed in my performance today, but overall, its not that bad of a hiccup. 9 days in, and that’s really been my only issue thus far. I will take it as a lesson learned, move forward, and monitor for any similar problems later on.
Again, still happy to be on this challenge, and not truly missing any of the things I have given up. I do think now and again about couple of online games a bit, maybe a TV show will flash on the screen my husband is watching and I will want to sit for just a few minutes, but those feelings are just a passing thing, and I easily move past them. It probably bothers me more when I cannot pop into google or something similar to get more information on some random subject. I knew before, but definitely realize it more now, that I have a bit of an obsession with 'knowing' everything I can about something. If I have a question, I HAVE to look it up and figure it all out.
On a positive side, I have sent my husband off to look up his own information more and more, which is making him MUCH less dependent on me for PC related issues. I know that my curiosity and overwhelming need to find things out tends to lead me to look up information for other people far too often, this has been a good 'break' from that, and likely will be something I will try and continue post challenge. Feels good to part with some of that self created dependency.
So onward I go.
Day 9 Results:
- Work Productivity - Medium (was a frustrating day but not related to challenge)
- Home Productivity - Medium (strayed to new webcam)
- Energy about challenge - High
- Physical Energy - Medium
- Mental clarity - Medium/low (had an odd day where emotions were high and finding a clear head more difficult)
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