After returning from a fun weekend with family, you’d think that I would be motivated to jump back into work and “the grind”. But I’m not. In fact, I’m also worse off than before I left. Yesterday was a terrible day at work, full of disctractions and attitudes. I got very little done and even fewer important things done.

Today started the same, so I re-routed my mindset and decided to “clear some space”. I’ve read that a common Buddhist (read: mystical, East oriented, completely hip and cool — whatever) practice is to clean up your space when you feel stuck or down. Well, I decided to relent on this point and give it a try. I took a couple of hours to clean a closet that has needed it for about a year as well as some of my personal (read: bedside) space. It has been so junked up for so long that it has weighed on my mind as one of many “must get around to” items.

I still haven’t gotten much done today, but I feel like it wasn’t a wasted day like yesterday turned out to be. And I have more energy and might even get around to some work tonight, if the “goddess of beauty and brilliance” doesn’t have other plans! I even had some ideas for work as I was doing the fairly mindless “sort and toss” work of cleaning and reorganizing.

Lesson learned … this time, anyway. Next time work is going south, I’ll try to find an outlet that allows for greater energy as well as a break from the drudgery.