No. 39
In every sense of the word, I’m an indoor person. I
don’t like to go out. I am not a crowd person but different events have ensured
adaptation. Now, in my old age, I am getting better at being in the
midst of people. Since leaving paid employment, my dining table, laptop, and
phones have been my trusted office.
On my normal workday, if I am not meeting with clients
or prospects, I’m working at home from 6:00 am till 2:00 pm, when I shut down to
prepare for the children’s return from school and face their homework with
them. Work could be editing a manuscript, or transcribing an interview or
ghostwriting someone’s autobiography or memoirs. I usually have at least three
jobs I am working on at the same time.
I cherish my morning work time.
The few times I am fortunate to go to bed early I might wake up earlier, get a
little work done before preparing to send the husband and kids out of the house
to work and school respectively. I
cherish my morning work time because I start slowing down and losing my train
of thoughts as time progresses into the day. Later in the day, I can only read,
do some research or just play around.
When the unexpected happened, my schedule flew out the
window.
Truthfully, since the dawn of Corona that resulted in
the Lockdown, I struggled to keep up with work. Gone was the tranquility of the
home while I’m all alone.
Now, in addition to sacrificing the laptop for the
children’s online classes at my most productive time of the day, I bear the
burden of monitoring online lessons, assignments, amidst constant songs of ‘I
am hungry’ alone.
I keep screaming “I have work to do!” and “I have
deadlines to meet!” or “Stop distracting me!” When I try to work at night to
achieve more, while the house sleeps, I doze off due to fatigue. It feels so
easy to get angry and bitter at the supposed cause of my frustrations.
I am thankful for never getting to that point. My Dear
Friend reminds me to shift the focus, receive strength and not break. I am
in a place of gratitude.
In the last two years or more, the period of Lockdown
to date has been my busiest work schedule with crazy deadlines and the most
rewarding for me.
Never before, have I experienced the help of the Holy
Spirit as I have in the last few weeks. It reaffirms what I already know about
what I have set out to achieve going forward.
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