Fell off the horse a bit. Burnout and Regeneration

Good day all. It's been a while.

My activity count has been nearly nothing for the last week. Besides being very busy, the times that I did have to write something I was too burnt out to really write anything.

It's not a light thing when I say that I reached my limit and needed to do a bit of a reset. And this was done not while having a holiday. I still needed to work, sometimes a bit extra actually. I still needed to be a dad and a supportive partner.

But when there are too many things going on at the same time that saps your strength, then you are bound to fall.

So where to start?

The last year has not been a rollercoaster. Despite my OPTIMISM, this last year has been hard knocks one after the other and I... we... as a family needed to weather them.

• 3 Human family deaths in the family this year.
• 1 Family pet death this year.
• Another Family pet was injured and at risk of dying.
• My partner was retrenched from her work and her boss, not understand the basic responsibilities of an employer thought she could do it without paying a severance which meant that we needed to go the legal route to get that basic requirement.
• Stress at work due to certain unhappy groups that demand impossible things from my employer. These are the worst workers, not the best and they are making it terrible for the rest.
• Hard projects that I have been busy with and starting again. High stakes, high stress.
• Renovations were suddenly being done at our home, without even 1 day's notice and the workers started invading our private spaces and this caused me stress as well!

Adding all of this together and a number of other things, my ability to deal with and just "handle" all the issues becomes less and less.

So I needed a reset! At least just on the writing part. I needed to give myself a bit of grace. Not posting was something that I would usually berate myself for, but I have learned to be kind to myself.

So what I will do now is do a post and do a project at home. We have some people coming over tonight and I have quite a lot of tasks to do.

But I am basically back again. I feel a lot better. I just needed to give myself some time.

Thanks for reading!

Cheers!
@zakludick

** The Image used in this post is my own taken on my phone of myself at work.

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