Isn’t it just the way it goes? I get all psyched up about my new potential for productivity and then I get slammed with a weird week. You know the type. For no real reason at all, the whole family has just been off.
Instead of beating myself up over all I didn’t accomplish (namely, the completion of most everything I had planned), I’ve decided to take my own advice, shift gears and focus on what I did accomplish, which was quite a lot, come to think of it.
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