I’m sitting by the water, surrounded by trees, and bugs, and butterflies; loons fishing for breakfast by my dock; a warm and gentle wind cooling off the feeling of the hot sun on my skin; cicadas singing their long yearning song in the distance; and I think to myself “Why do I wait a whole…
Tag: mental health
How to love what you do, even if you hate your job
You hate your job. You’re certainly not alone in this. But what if you could find some measure of joy, or even simple content, in the work you do, even as you look for the kind of work you really want to be doing? There’s this guy where I used to work – let’s call…
The one tool that saved me from burning out
I didn’t have writer’s block. In fact, I have at least 10 partially written blog posts just waiting for my attention. Why couldn’t I just “do the work” and finish a damn article and post it? What was wrong with me? And then it dawned on me. I had a really crappy 2017. It started…