I did not realize until Wednesday, that there was a holiday on Thursday (山の日 ) so then I quickly took Friday off as well to make it a LONG weekend.

Not taking things Personally

https://medium.dave-bailey.com/the-art-of-not-taking-things-personally-b7a8395ce172

When we encounter emotions and behaviours that don’t make sense to us, it’s often because we don’t have all the information. And in the absence of information, we tend to assume the worst.

The past few days, I’ve had to deal with a somewhat sudden issue that has me a bit miffed. It’s quite surprising timing to have this come up in my feed. I think I also need to be more mindful of my own stress bucket at times. My local cat cafe is sometime a good way to help melt some stress away. Now that the weather is finally starting to cool down a bit, evening walks are another of my favorite ways to reduce stress.

Review season at work tends to drain me mentally and my usual motivation suffers

I’ve been continuing to try to cut most social media down and removing sources of “doom scrolling” to see if I can help reset some of my mood and restore my focus.

Monday was mountain day so it was a shorter work week. Though most of this week the weather in Kyushu was full of heavy rain, leaving me a bit less energetic than usual. I’m trying to take more daily notes in noteplan to help me remember what I did for the week.

In order to force myself to get in the habit of documenting more of my work, I want to try to start writing weekly notes of what I have been up to.