Do you feel like you are swimming against the current? There are three things you can do:
- Keep swimming in the direction you are heading
- Float and drift with the current
- Adjust the direction you are going
Keep swimming in the direction you are heading
If you are certain you are going in the right direction, don’t stop! Pace yourself so that you do not become exhausted and are forced to do number 2 or number 3. There should be time to do the following to allow you to have the strength to maintain your course:
- Rest
- Breaks
- Relaxation
- Play
- Nourish your body
- Maintain relationships
Float and drift with the current
If you are already burnt out, this is the best choice as soon as possible. You will be able to regain your strength and can alway return to the direction you were traveling.This is a good choice if you aren’t sure about continuing to swim against the current. While you float and drift with the current you can regroup.
When drifting along you might find the following helpful:
- Get away from the computer a couple days
- Talk with others
- Evaluate the effectiveness and potential of the direction you are going
- Balance it with less tiresome project
- Temporarily increase time for fun and relaxation
Put a time limit on how long you will float and drift so not to end up in a stagnant pool.
Adjust the direction you are going
There may be some simple adjustments that you can make to ease the physical toll of heading in the direction you have chosen. A slight angle might cut the energy used in half allowing for a more productive and faster swim time. The following may help:
- Re-evaluate the project goals
- Delegate
- Outsource
- Adjust time tables
Being an entrepreneur, creating passive income, being self-employment, and not going to college already starts the current against you until you can prove yourself. Don’t allow a poor plan to make it more difficult than it needs to be.
A few days ago, I had a rare Saturday off. I was suppose to go to a friends wedding and help with photographing it. I knew both of them from Walmart. He died after having a heart attack at work (he had the heart attack minutes after I said good bye after my shift ended), a few days before his 43rd birthday on March 18, 2008. It has been really sad. With the other stuff going on in my life, I decided to take the day off and relax.
Some of us at work got a star group named after the two of them and had it dated for the day they would’ve married. She was very touched by it and we both were crying by the time she finished opening the certificates.
Some co-workers are moving out of state so we got together at my house. It was fun. Saturday I slept in and spent some time at home before going to visit my son, his wife, and my grand daughter. She took her first photographs with me! She is just so beautiful and smart. I then went out of town to a little quiet town, Wilcox. It was fun and relaxing. Stopped by Stout’s Cider Mill. Got some delicious fudge and a very heavy apple pie.
I was a little tired going into work today but VERY relaxed. It was nice having a day off dedicated to relaxing. I kept having the feeling I needed to be somewhere. It finally passed and I really enjoyed getting away.
Jan’s Group Home Support has a new blog design. It is a little darker than I would like, but after all the work to get it as far as I did, I’m going to leave it. I picked the design for the way it was set up, more than the color.
It will be awhile before I change this blog. It was very difficult. It included accidentally deleting the new design. The last save had enough I could fix it. I didn’t save it through FTP, so I only had some files copied. Bob Schmuck fixed the navigation bar and somehow I lost it. He finally figured out the part of the code giving us headaches by going through one line of code at a time! The problem was that the page links would pull up my recent posts instead of the page content. Bob said it was one of the hardest things he’s had to figure out. He’s not real familiar with Wordpress code.
I was SO happy when it was done. I kept clicking on the links just to see them work! 
It was time consuming and tiring as I tried my best to do it myself. It was way beyond my expertise! I’m so glad I have Bob.