So the moon will be entering it’s full moon phase tomorrow, and then within a few days October will be halfway over—as it is, there are less than ninety days left in the year. I have basically six weeks left on the job, and then I will be starting my reboot break—I’ve realized over the past week or so that I’ve worked myself into movement paralysis (overthinking to the point of not being able to do anything), and that in the spring I’ll have to make a leap. What that leap is going to be or where it will take me—that is still up to the drawing board.

So before I sit down to draft my next round of full moon goals, I should look back at the                                           goals that I set for the Pisces full moon and see how I did with them.

My goals for the Pisces Full Moon included:

            Meditating nightly.

            Get back into journaling and working on my reboot break and transition plan.

            In connection with number two—figure out how to divide things between different days and work on my time management (plan things out).

So how did I do with each one?

            Other than the past week or so, I managed to meditate at least two to three minutes each night. I realized that October was going to be a difficult month (in basically every aspect of life), due to it being the one year anniversary “month” of when we had to put Chewi and Piranha down last year. I had thought that I managed to get a grasp on my depression—and for the most part I have, but I’ve also realized that there will be times when I slid backwards. These past few weeks has been that slid backwards—now I’m going to be working on moving forward again; both to regain the ground “lost” during my backwards slid and to make progress moving forward.

            In terms of journaling and working on various plans—I’ve been slowly working through an new e-course, and with that has come some startling thoughts—like I’ve been in academic research (in some form) for a long enough period, that the “career” has reached the legal age of drinking. Now that I’ve decided that I’m done with academia—I’ll be starting with a “new, baby” career—that will have quite a ways to go before it reaches the legal age of drinking.

            I’m still working on my time management and planning things out—I’ve realized that it may be better to just try to block off time for certain things (working on an e-course, journaling/answering personal development questions) than stating that from X to Y is going to be Z and then moving on to C and D. Again over the last few weeks I’ve realized that I’ve worked myself into “movement paralysis” and anytime I tried to slowly work my way out of it—I’d sidetrack myself by checking social media, and other pages. So one thing I’ll be doing is looking into the sites that allow you to block access to certain pages for a certain amount of time. That way I can hopefully get quite a bit of other stuff accomplished without sidetracking myself with social media. This also means that I’ll be having to straighten up my working space at home and remove/hide other items that I would consider “time wasters”—mainly my phone (so that I can’t check social media), my kindle (so I’m not just reading anything), and possibly some of my craft items.

It is time to figure out what I’m wanting to do with the second half of my life—academic research has been fun, and will always hold a spot—but it is time to find that one thing that I’m totally passionate about, and will also keep me interested and engaged at work, and I feel excitement when I head into work daily—instead of counting down the hours until I can leave.

But currently I’m going to keep with the motto: Progress over Perfection.