I was laid off from my job of 11 years on April 14th. It's a fear-inducing change. I want to make the best of this situation while I search for new work. So, I'm tracking my progress and sharing my discoveries over the next 98 days of severance pay. With common sense, humor, patience, and guts, I endeavor to act on John Ruskin's philosophy: "For we are not sent into this world to do any thing into which we cannot put our hearts."
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
99% Lallygagging, 1% Focus (...73)
99% Lallygagging, 1% Focus...I'll hang on to that 1%. Mental fatigue sets in pretty fast when I job search online. I could only take so much of it today. A few hours into work researching, I moved on to a few disruptive habits: channel flipping (gasp!!), website surfing (not so terrible, depending on the sites, but I can quickly get lost in the NY Times Home & Garden section), and magazine reading (Fast Company and LAVA). As well as a few calming habits: cooking (polenta!) and exercising (killer mat workout by TA!). Here's where the 1% focus comes in...Today I started research to prep for a meeting with a friend of mine with whom I'm working on a potential online business. This got my full attention. I'm so excited about having an interesting project that uses some of my skills but also provides a great deal of challenges to problem-solve and opportunities to gain experience. I'm not sure at what time today I stopped being idle and started to zone in on this new project, but once I got going it was all I could think about. That's a good feeling to have when it can feel like these laid off days lack order.
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