Re: I'm getting help: underearning.
Posted: July 14th, 2013, 11:58 am
Weary, thanks so much for your encouragement. It was all the support I got all week.
I thought about your post, and I have come to believe that it is all physical:
In the morning, I have breakfast, caffeine, and hike. All good. Plans are implemented, and action is taken. All good.
In the early afternoon, I start to get hungry, a little tired, and in my head. Even when I take action, the negative thought loop starts playing in my head.
Your post helped me examine what was happening, and how predictable it was.
My solution will be to schedule a time to splash water on my face, have a little snack (I like these stone ground wheat crackers), a drink of water, and a brief walk outside for about ten minutes.
Then immediately back to job searching. At 4 or 5 pm I will usually bottom out emotionally if I don't have any response from employers.
I do like the idea of #2 serving the #1 me as a friend warning of an upcoming need. While #3 me is good, like you say, #2 is a warning I ignore to my own peril. That is, #2 can serve as a warning to #1. Like a friend, giving a heads up.
Lastly, I am continuing to try new methods to spend time on task. I downloaded a free stopwatch app, for when I spend "time on task" (keeping in mind that I am a chronic time-waster).
Also, I made a list of 13 things I can do for that "time on task". The two things I've wasted much of my adult life on (much as I am shamed to type that) are wasting time online, and reading books are not on the time on task list. Now, wasting time online and reading are fine pursuits....on my time off...if I had a job.
While I am facing homelessness, I will save reading for 5:01 pm. If it is 4:59, I want to applying for jobs.
My goal is four hours a day, time on task. On Friday I was at 1:26. I'll post updates in a week.
Thanks for listening.
I thought about your post, and I have come to believe that it is all physical:
In the morning, I have breakfast, caffeine, and hike. All good. Plans are implemented, and action is taken. All good.
In the early afternoon, I start to get hungry, a little tired, and in my head. Even when I take action, the negative thought loop starts playing in my head.
Your post helped me examine what was happening, and how predictable it was.
My solution will be to schedule a time to splash water on my face, have a little snack (I like these stone ground wheat crackers), a drink of water, and a brief walk outside for about ten minutes.
Then immediately back to job searching. At 4 or 5 pm I will usually bottom out emotionally if I don't have any response from employers.
I do like the idea of #2 serving the #1 me as a friend warning of an upcoming need. While #3 me is good, like you say, #2 is a warning I ignore to my own peril. That is, #2 can serve as a warning to #1. Like a friend, giving a heads up.
Lastly, I am continuing to try new methods to spend time on task. I downloaded a free stopwatch app, for when I spend "time on task" (keeping in mind that I am a chronic time-waster).
Also, I made a list of 13 things I can do for that "time on task". The two things I've wasted much of my adult life on (much as I am shamed to type that) are wasting time online, and reading books are not on the time on task list. Now, wasting time online and reading are fine pursuits....on my time off...if I had a job.
While I am facing homelessness, I will save reading for 5:01 pm. If it is 4:59, I want to applying for jobs.
My goal is four hours a day, time on task. On Friday I was at 1:26. I'll post updates in a week.
Thanks for listening.