Dear Kayla,
I was moving forward myself, then had a setback. Why did this happen?
I was pushing and doing great. I was growing more and more excited. I was steadily building skills. Then things started to fall apart.
I wasn't pushing too much. I wasn't moving beyond what I was capable of doing. What happened was that my external life changed. I became too busy preparing for the holidays and some other events. I wanted to keep building skills, so I kept working on them at the same rate. But the combination of the two became overwhelming.
Setbacks can be external or internal. They do not even need to be problems -- even good things can be stressful. It is easy to grow excited about building skills and push to continue. But you always need to keep an eye on external stress and see if you need to make accomodations. If I had made accomodations earlier, I could have gone back to work much more easily.
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