Many of you know I have struggled with re-entry on prior trips. Major causes include:
- getting behind on podcast-related work and coming to home to a pileup that feels incredibly overwhelming
- heading straight into a call week or some other major transition (example: back to school in the fall!)
- arriving home on a Sunday or totally fatigued and very late on Saturday
- someone being sick (just so common post-travel!)
- jet lag and MUCH later schedule compounding it (happens when we go West -we’ll turn 2-3 hours into 5-6 because of sleeping in / staying up late. We will have to try to avoid that in Hawaii . . .)
I am happy to report that somehow this particular re-entry felt much easier than usual! We arrived home by dinnertime on Saturday, which meant a full night of sleep and heading into Sunday pretty rested. We had NOTHING planned Sunday, which was perfect (and unusual). I did a ton of laundry and unpacking and house resetting and the kids did a lot of TV watching/video game playing (Josh was working and I had decided not to worry about it in this particular case). I walked over 12,000 steps and probably 80% of those were in the house, moving laundry around, cleaning up, and putting things away.
And then Monday I had a reasonably light day (one BIG interview and one BLP to record plus I had to get a rental car since mine won’t be fixed for at least a few more days, but that was mostly it).
SOOOOO for once I feel good!! My clinical inbox today will probably be exploding and I have a full schedule of patients tomorrow, but I can stay late if need be and catch up, and/or continue to catch up throughout the week. I absolutely have plenty of other things I need to deal with Weds (starting the BLP Live launch up this week, beginning with returning participants) but the number of things is not panic inducing.
AND, March is a pretty normal month, as far as work goes! I have 4 solid weeks with at least 2 days for creative work — this feels like such a luxury after February (in which I basically had 4 total AND THAT INCLUDES MY COLONOSCOPY PREP DAY AND THE DAY OF THE PROCEDURE ITSELF, OMG).
I didn’t take on that much that was new/big this month and that was the right choice and that is probably why I feel okay. I didn’t hit all that many of my February goals but I kept my head above water, got the important things done, and feel good heading into the last month of Quintile 1!
REMINDER: I’ll be in Palm Beach County this Wednesday at the Lantana Public Library, at 6 PM talking about . . . all things planning and planning adjacent (and the book)! Would LOVE to see some of you there — and Jenny might be there (hoping! No pressure Jenny!).
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