Recently I have had many things going on in my life. Everything from school to kids to work. In addition my house has had to be cleaned and a myriad of many other details taken care of. As a result of too many things going on at once I've been sick more often than ever. I am yet again home sick with a sinus thing and a sore throat. I have to ask myself why? Why am I yet again sick? What is it in my life that is causing this?
I've taken a semester off from school to study for my MOS. Not too terribly hard as far as educational endeavors go at least for me. I am fairly sure I'll pass both Excel and Power Point fairly easily. After that it's a simple matter of learning a bit more about Access and boning up for the Expert Excel & Word tests. I have until mid-November so no big deal. Scratch school and homework and term papers off as a stressor.
Work... I love what I do. I teach computer skills to people. Anyone and everyone who walks in my door is welcome to learn whatever they want to all they have to do is ask and I'll teach. Projects for the boss... I have roughly 30 but nothing truly time critical. I have a new routine for some old tasks and now those old tasks take even less time than they did a couple weeks ago. Scratch work off the list as a stressor.
Eating habits.... these have drastically improved as well. I'm eating much better both in quantity and quality of foods. Lots of veggies and fruit with meat and grains thrown in for good measure. I live on stir fry veggies with chicken and my favorite fruit smoothies. My only issue here is liquid intake..perhaps my main issue is in dehydration... I'm going to explore that more but overall not a major stressor.
The apartment.... kitchen is overall much cleaner than it has been, my desk is almost always a disaster--stressor, the laundry is always a big pile--stressor but otherwise the house is fairly well maintained for one with 2 children and a disabled cat... ok so the cat is a stressor too.
Finances.... usually a big one for most people... not true really, I have the funds to do what I need to and am actually getting ahead. I am about to shut down some community programs as I have stabilized my life to a point that I can ditch programs that cause stress in the form of paperwork. Not a stressor... well once I close things down it won't be as the programs cause more stress than supporting myself.
Old issues-- now here is where I think my root problem is. I have unresolved issues with an ex. I think this is the place I need to now focus on and resolve things. My question is how? Counseling is one option and is my likely one but here's a kicker with that I have a distrust and dislike of counselors as a past issue... so how do I seek a counselor when I don't like counselors? My answer... talk to my doctor and call for appointments for a counselor. Why haven't I done this yet? Because I need to get past procrastination and it's just time.
