ieva melgalve » health http://www.creativity.lv/birdcherry A writer with a goal: to learn to write well and edit better. Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:37:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3-beta2 finding the balance http://www.creativity.lv/birdcherry/index.php/2010/01/07/finding-the-balance/ http://www.creativity.lv/birdcherry/index.php/2010/01/07/finding-the-balance/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:56:46 +0000 ieva http://www.creativity.lv/birdcherry/?p=544 This year, I started with editing and writing. That was going pretty well until this morning when I woke up…well, I didn’t really wake up, i sorta came to consciousness and realized I can’t get out of my bed without swaying and I can’t look into light and I can’t have five minutes peace from headache. The idea that I had fever was totally wrong; my temperature was running too low. After a bit of research, I concluded it’s exhaustion. Yea, right, I’ve been actually doing something for six days and now I’m exhausted, despite the fact that I sleep, on average, 9 hours a day (long nap after work, then going to sleep and waking up late).
Well, obviously I have to tweak my plans then. Editing stays, writing gets cut down to 100 words a day. It’s not much by any means, I can do it in twenty minutes (the very fact that I need twenty minutes to get 100 words down is an indicator of low batteries), and hopefully I’ll end up not skipping work like I do today and not driving myself mad with “am I going insane” ideas.

There’s very little I’ll do if I burn myself out, is there? So, well, let’s adjust to what my body says is the right amount of work.

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