Tag: stress
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It wasn't until I made time for myself to get out into the countryside near my home and take the dog for a walk that I realised how much stress I'd been putting myself under during my team meetup, this week.
Istanbul was enjoyable and fascinating, and I love my team, but I always forget until after the fact how much a few days worth of city crowds can make me feel anxious and trapped.
It's good to get a mile or two from the nearest other human and decompress!
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Dan, a red leash hung across his shoulders, gives a half-shrug as he smiles for a selfie on a grassy trail between a hedgerow and a field. Behind him, near a weathered old-fashioned footpath sign, his French Bulldog looks at him expectantly.
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Sabbatical Lesson #2: Burnout
The second lesson I took from my sabbatical was that it's possible to risk burnout (and therefore, it's important to be aware of and ready to counteract it) even when you're not working (in the conventional sense). Fortunately, my coach is on hand to help.
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RSS Zero isn't the path to RSS Joy
There’s nothing special about reaching Inbox Zero in your feed reader.
It’s not noble nor enlightened to get to the bottom of your “unread” list.
Your 👏 feed 👏 reader 👏 is 👏 not 👏 an 👏 email 👏 client. 👏 -
How Am I Supposed To Feel?
After my stressy-rant the other day, Claire, Kit and Paul started tidying up Claire and my flat. My suspicions - that they were doing this to try to make my life a little less stressful - were confirmed by Claire one evening.
They mean well, but I can't help but feel that instead of having lots … -
Stress
Things that are causing me excess stress and reduced sleep:
WORK
I'm writing program features that have been paid for, but may never be used.
I can't keep a pcAnywhere connection to the client open for more than a few minutes.
I've been abandoned to sort out the database replication by myself.
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Thursday Afternoon
Good progress at work today, easily catching up on the things I didn't get done yesterday on account of having been at the Royal Welsh Show.
AbNib is proving itself popular, but I'm still not happy with it: there are a load of really cool features I'd like to add, yet. But that's a job for …