Secondly, two things I've found useful from this course I'm on to help me get back to work is:
a) choose 1 small achievable goal a day or a week so that you can feel good about that. I'm currently on the goal a week because some days it's enough to get dressed.
b) if something prevents you from getting something done, you don't say I didn't do ... and feel negative; you say I was prevented from doing [insert whatever] by [insert the reason]. Does that make sense? It works actually because it moves the blame from you & stops you feeling like a failure.
I cheer myself up by:
*playing classical music really loud - full on Tchaikovsky, fucking fantastic
*re-read a fic or a fav' segment of a fic where part of the joy is the witty use of language. Particular favourites are most things by mirasfics, fearlessdiva, amanuensis1 and lovely_slyth. Infact if I'm really down I re-read all of the Mutual Interest universe by lovely_slyth. If you haven't read them, you'll find all the links in my memories under Romance.
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Secondly, two things I've found useful from this course I'm on to help me get back to work is:
a) choose 1 small achievable goal a day or a week so that you can feel good about that. I'm currently on the goal a week because some days it's enough to get dressed.
b) if something prevents you from getting something done, you don't say I didn't do ... and feel negative; you say I was prevented from doing [insert whatever] by [insert the reason]. Does that make sense? It works actually because it moves the blame from you & stops you feeling like a failure.
I cheer myself up by:
*playing classical music really loud - full on Tchaikovsky, fucking fantastic
*re-read a fic or a fav' segment of a fic where part of the joy is the witty use of language. Particular favourites are most things by
*go for a walk in the countryside
*retail therapy
*theatre