by Ira | Mar 31, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
I have a cycle I run through whenever I get depressed. I’ve just recently realized it. I get anxious about something until it builds to some kind of breaking point. After that, I feel depressed, and my mind and body go into shutdown/recovery mode. I take a...
by Ira | Mar 30, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
It’s tough when you don’t feel good. I don’t feel like those words quite adequately express what I want them to, but they’re all the words I seem to have right now, and honesty is more important than eloquence. I have the feeling that I...
by Ira | Mar 29, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
It was a tough week for me, guys. Which is a new feeling, because I got work done, and that’s usually all I need. I really did power through, and I know logically that I truly got some solid work in, but it was just a tough week. Depressed. Anxious. A few highs,...
by Ira | Mar 28, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
“The Dip” is a concept from Seth Godin. I haven’t read it–I just loaded it onto my kindle and the reading starts immediately after writing this–but I feel like I’m in one. A “dip,” that is. I know I’m in one,...
by Ira | Mar 27, 2019 | Challenge, Journal
I let go of some books today. I’d had them since I was a teenager. They were Star Trek books. I collected them. I’d buy them in hardcover, read them immediately, and then proudly put them on my shelf. I had dozens of them. Spines out. Dust jackets shiny...
