Rolling an intimidating week to a close…

I felt like I was rolling into a pretty intimidating week this past Monday. Now that it’s Friday, I’m beginning to see some light at the end of the tunnel. I’m not sure if I’ll reach the end of the tunnel today or tomorrow afternoon, however getting there seems a lot more managable this morning than it did on Monday morning.

My primary and overall goal for this week was getting everything I needed to get done, done, while managing my stress to manageable levels. I’m feeling pretty good about accomplishing that goal so far, knowing that there’s still some distance to travel in really getting there this week.

In the past, I probably would have experienced higher levels of ongoing tension, which would lead to peaks of exhaustion, which would then require summoning higher energy levels to keep pushing through, which then would continue to feed on itself in a vicious cycle, making it more and more difficult to keep pushing. Things would start to feel like the theory in practice that if you start a certain distance from a finish line, and keep splitting that distance in half, while you always get closer to the finish line, you actually start taking smaller and smaller steps and technically never get there.

This week I’ve been able to keep a more even stride. That stride, in turn, makes it feel like maintaining that stride across the finish line can be more of a breezy jog than a slow grind pushing something really heavy in front of me to get there.

I’m writing today’s post to help me remember how things have been different this time, in the hope that I can maintain that stride, by sticking to the things that have worked throughout the week, to help me stride across the finish line. I’d much rather get there with some easy breathing rather than collapse after a hard push. The finish line is in sight and I’m almost there.