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Cleaning the mind (and home)

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After another long lull in activity here, I finally have my mind in a place where I can write again.  Maybe one day my “mind outages” will be less frequent.  Essentially what happens is I go into a sort of preservation mode whereby I dedicate all my energy to work and absolutely necessary tasks to keep myself afloat.  Everything else gets sort of paused.  It is not ideal and I do not like it but this is the only way I can weather the storms that occur in my mind. Anyway, around the middle of last week (or was it the week before?) I decided that, although working from home is so much better for me, there was not enough separation between the home office and home life.  To that end, I decided to totally redo my work and living spaces to truly separate them.  It sounded easy on paper …

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Sunday thoughts

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Although I have not made as much progress as I would like, I have made some progress and that has to be a good thing.  For me, it is a hugely good thing considering my stagnation over recent weeks (months?) The biggest thing I have made progress on is starting to refresh my skills and starting to learn new things.  Such as: Learning Python Learning R Refreshing my Android app development skills I must admit, so far Python is more than a little weird for me but it is very interesting.  I’ll be using R for work or at least I plan to.  The are some things I may need it for to link to APIs in PowerBI reports.  As for Android dev skills, this is purely for private development.  I have folders of ideas for apps and some that are even halfway there but have sat them on the …

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Minor victory

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I think I had a small victory today.  A tiny victory in the eyes of most people I bet, but for me it was great.  I addressed a situation head-on.  Instead of just accepting the blame for a change or minimising my frustration at a situation, I addressed it, and you know what?  It didn’t turn out as bad as I thought.  Even though it took me a lot longer than I would like to work up the nerve to do it, I did it.  Looking back on it now, it was such a small thing, but my mind (playing through every bad scenario it could) made me get more than a little stressed. So yeah, minor victory and some of you may well be thinking “yup, what was the big deal?”  If you believe that then I am happy for you.  You are in a place I eventually want …

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