There’s so much to get finished this week. Work to complete. I feel on the cusp of some real changes, which most likely means that I’ve already fallen off the edge, but haven’t noticed it yet, a coyote plummeting the second he really looks, down. I have this fantasy that by March’s Ides, I’ll be… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Self Sabotage
Where I get stuck…
A common place I see people stuck in (including myself) is the the emotional attachment to situations and problems that they have already moved past. It is more comforting to state our situations in terms that we are familiar with than to try to see them as they are. We want the problem we’re used… Continue Reading
Landmark…
Monday therapy-esque ramblings once again, like a twinge from a phantom limb. At some point today went south for me. I maybe it was the onset of the rain, the sense that i was returning to the work week without a clear achievement to point to, or a more general feeling of disconnectedness. I started… Continue Reading
Gimme a pigfoot, and a bottle of beer…
…and then hold the pigfoot. Can we say that this was a difficult weekend? Yes we can. In the same breath that we can say that it was an important weekend. Important because I managed to not self sabotage an important opportunity, even though I cut it close. But isn’t that how I always cut… Continue Reading
This is why I can’t have nice things…
In my rush to get packed for this month, I tossed my usual pipe bag into my larger duffel, the one that I checked through. When I say tossed I should say that I wrapped it in some of the clothing I had in the bag also, figuring that that would be enough to protect… Continue Reading
Fear of an empty inbox…
Like most of us, I’m overwhelmed by email. Thousands of messages piling up over time between work and home accounts. So today in response to a post on unclutterer I tried an experiment: I moved all of my email except for today’s out of my inbox and into an archive. I then went through and… Continue Reading