Day 56: Time & choices

I got an email from Patrick noting that it was approaching 10 days since my last update. Which--good golly, how has it been almost 10 days?! And that is reflective of how the last week or so has been--very swift moving. It's been GREAT in a lot of ways: I've been writing a lot more (good for my website, good for my work), I've been doing a lot of cool creating and networking with other people (again, good for my work, good for my site, good for future products).

But I'm finding it really hard to balance the extra emphasis in the work sphere with the PCP. I find myself having to choose between more time with whatever I'm working on and spending the time necessary to workout, and I admit, I haven't chosen working out more than about 50% of the time. I don't pretend that I don't have "enough" time or that it's not a choice. I've just been choosing to spend extra hours on work & creation & connection rather than spending usual hours on work/creation/connection and then also working out.

There is enough time in my day for both--but because of when I get up, when I work, and when I'm best able to work out, it would require me to skip out on doing family stuff in the evening, which I'm rarely willing to do. Again, it's not that I can't, it's that between working out & family time, I choose family time.

It's nothing novel... the struggle to fit all the pieces into one's day is only about the most unoriginal problem ever. But that's where I'm at. I confess to struggling and I confess to not consistently making the workout-choice.

On the physical side of things, my shoulder is still really sore. Today it's been just a constant, dull ache that seems to emanate from deep inside the shoulder. I still can't move the arm back or laterally without sharp pain. So that still sucks, and has continued to rule out dips and some of the shoulder work as a possibility.

So that's my update... such as it is! Struggling, but still here.