I’ve made a lot of promises to update this blog, to do some more writing, and to get into the swing of things with doing more online. Obviously this hasn’t happened, but a lot of good things have come out of what has been probably the most stressful past six months of my life. Work/Life Balance For a period of time I had a pretty terrible work/life balance. It began with a number of...
It’s been a considerable amount of time since I last posted on this blog. Life has become incredibly busy and stressful since my last update. Work continues to demand most of my free time and the lack of balance has been having quite the impact on me. However, I am starting to put up some barriers with the office to ensure that I can get more and more free time. Here’s a summary of...
I’ll be open and honest. My year hasn’t gone according to plan thus far. I wanted to try to get a new article written every month, but the company I work for is going through a ton of growing pains resulting in an average of 50-60 hour work weeks. When I add the personal stresses of moving, health issues, and trying to help out some struggling family, that leaves very little free time...
On Tuesday, September 19, 2023 I began to experience what I would say was a reduction in energy in the second half of the day that was greater than usual. It was a work-from-home day and I did exercise on that day, so I didn’t think too much of it. The following day (Wednesday), I ended up going to work and had what I think was a rather productive day. Towards the second half of that work...
While we’re in the middle of September 2023, I figured I would give a quick update on how things have been going lately. Since moving into the apartment and getting settled, I have had plenty of time to streamline things within my daily schedule. Basic Cleaning / Daily Chores One thing I made a point to implement was a loose schedule on cleaning things up based on the state of things in the...
I made a decision on July 3rd to return back to a ketogenic diet. A bit over a year before the pandemic started I had gotten into a health kick and had managed to lose around 85 lbs. Once COVID started rearing its head, I had fallen off the wagon in more than one way. Upon starting this journey, I was seeing myself at around 315 lbs. I’ll be the first to admit that is the heaviest I have...