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I found this on /r/getmotivated as posted by /u/anony_meows excellent place to start.

Learn to front-load your pain. That's it.
If you procrastinate, you're putting off more than your work. You're putting off the pain. Right?
But doesn't it always catch up to you?
What you have to do is front-load all those yucky crappy feelings. Go ahead and feel it now so you don't have to feel it later. And guess what? If you put it off, it gets amplified. Right now you're dreading doing your homework or writing an article or w/e, but what if you don't do it? And worse, what if you put that stuff off consistently?
That thing you feel crappy about? That thing you're dreading? That is exactly the thing you need to do in order to improve your life.
It's a sign post.
Instead of dreading it, go ahead and embrace it. Embrace the yucky feeling and all. If you can do this for three weeks consistently, you will change your life forever.
If you embrace all that yucky stuff with gusto, your brain will take notice. Your brain is not static. it changes depending on what you focus on. The circuitry in your brain literally changes over time.
Finally, think of your actions as alchemy. You are taking time and adding energy to it to create a result. If you take action haphazardly, you will have a meh kind of life.
You know you're going to end up feeling like shit if you procrastinate anyway, so go ahead and do the thing you're afraid to do. If you're going to feel bad either way, you might as well take the action that will improve your life.

Finally. A moment.

Today I'm actually sitting in with the rest of my staff. In a meeting. Sometimes serving in my work I feel isolated from the group. It's unintentional but still frustrating. I love working here; these people are nuts.

Semester has been insane for me to balance workloads. Sad part of this is the lack of time for anything hobby. Best that can be said though is that I've still been able to make time to play with my kids. Even though I feel like a ghost at home. so much stuff to do so little time.

Finally I got my it from the library. Now to binge before term starts.

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It's a quote from a wise redditor.

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So I ran a thing.

This past weekend I had the opportunity to escape from the valley and go hide in a much smaller isolated valley. Some friends had invided us to chill with them at their families cabin up Parley’s canyon. It was so strange because we were able to leave so much of the noise that is part of living in the city for just crickets.

Late night a friend kills the last of the fire

An inescapable constant thought was “it is insanely peaceful”. It was a powerful and profound place to be because of that. I think the only other place that I’ve experienced that type of quiet was inside of the temple. A big thank you for letting us escape from the city and be able to effectively go off grid for a weekend. It’s insane how nice that actually is.

Durring this getaway I also did something I haven’t been able to in years. A Pathfinder Game was ran. It has been an itch to do something like this for ages. Preparing for this was something of a mental challenge. Game prep came easy and is old hand, like riding a bike, the larger hurdle though is dealing with Mental Health while Running and also Playing.

Recently Fear the Boot (an RPG podcast) has a 2 part series about Mental Health how it affects both running and playing. I’d encourage you to check out both Part 1 and Part 2 as it’s an excellent open discussion on social anxiety and how to handle it. For my part dealing with Depression episodes and is debilitating for me at points. Good news though is that each episode that is lived through is becoming more and more manageable without medication. A just in case plan would be smart to implement though.

The session was a theater of the mind setup this round. My players actually were able to put together the clues I had presented for them pretty readily. Additionally it’s interesting that two of three of them didn’t really put together that we are restarting the same arc that we had attempted a few years ago. This go seems to have started better than I had hoped with them putting out a fire, investigating a death, and hunting the equivelant of a very annoying raccoon. They did well and My personal hope is that I can be able to balance my life to include this style of story telling going forward. It’s of great value to me.

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