How do you know when it’s time to unplug? What do you do to make it happen?
I start to lose my patience outwardly. If it gets to that point, i’m about two days from crash and burn if current stress levels continue.
The protocol:
1 – step away from the desk
2 – leave phone at desk
3 – sit outside in the sun if possible, quiet indoors if not
4 – breathe
Repeat as often as necessary. Follow with extended time away from desk with book, audio book, or writing, Loud music may be appropriate. a good night’s sleep is a must.
Well, i work from home mostly, sooo… i kinda don’t. Can’t. whichever.
But that inability only applies to the spatial part of things, the physical. The mental and energetic side tho? I have learned to break things up during the day. Do some home stuff during the workday so that nothing ends up feeling neglected. i balance that as needed. some days, i work more, some days i focus on other stuff more. i spend appropriate time in each domain, even though i am existing and doing those things in the same space. a lot of people don’t understand the temporal division rather than the spatial one.
and for the record. this includes time for me, time to let me unwind, process, de-stress. many people forget the importance of this. of taking time to be random, be emotional, be careless.
any machine functioning at 100% capacity and effectiveness will wear out and break down, eventually.
That depends. If driving anywhere, definitely following. i have the directional sense of a goldfish, or so i’m told. I think i do pretty good tho. 😉
In general though, i’m both. That status is completely context dependent. Even at work, i function as both. You have to. If you try to do only one or the other, you will likely fail at your task.
There is a time and place for each, and balance is the key, as it is in so many things…
My first impulse is to define freedom and its meaning by listing those things i do with it. Nice things to talk about, sure, but they don’t answer the question. Not really, anyway.
What freedom means to me is that i have the ability to choose. I can direct my life however i see fit. I only have to make sure that my choices align with my values and my standards.
Freedom means possessing the capacity for self-direction.
Freedom means having power over, and responsibility for, your actions.
I just had a dude interrupt me when i was talking to my friend before heading home after our visit. This guy confidently walks over, opens the car door the rest of the way, steps close and says, ‘i wanna give you a kiss.’
This dude was two years old, in case anyone is wondering. Lol
Apparently, my friend’s son really loves me, and i’m his girlfriend. he broke up with me earlier today, actually…. but by the time he did this, i was his girlfriend again, i guess, so it’s ok. 😛
What is your favorite holiday? Why is it your favorite?
I don’t really have a favorite holiday; none of them mean what they used to. And this applies in general and to me personally.
I literally think of holidays as just another day. I don’t get excited or solemn like i used to. And it’s more than just growing up.
Modern society has drained the meaning and power of what these holidays represent.
Memorial Day, for example, used to be a serious day where you remember the fallen and support the vets still with us. Now, it’s a corporate free for all of ‘huge discounts’ on inflated prices, and is all about the bottom line.
Thanksgiving was about being grateful and setting differences aside. Now, it’s all about Black Friday Deals.
And for the record, there was never a peep about Christmas until santa appeared at the end of the Macy’s thanksgiving parade. Now, you start seeing or hearing about it in fucking October.
Everyone is in such a god damned rush to get to the next reason to spend money or get gifts or drink beer at a bbq, that we’ve forgotten about the things that actually give our lives meaning.
A Peculiar Cerebral Tangle 