Some days it’s enough to remember spin training. If you’re flying your little Cessna 172 and you make a couple of mistakes and get slow and uncoordinated, you can end up in a spin. The first steps are to pull out all of the power and take your hands OFF of the controls.
Your immediate goal is to not make anything worse.
Some days that means recognizing the couple of actual honest-to-God wins that you got and worked hard for and earned, and while recognizing that there’s a whole freaking list from Hell of things you need to do and things you want to do and things you want to stop doing, the next best step after recognizing your wins is to not make anything worse.
What’s the next step after that? Step on the opposite rudder to stop the spin, then gently pull up to level and put some power back in to climb back up and restore any lost altitude.
If you’re not in the left seat at the pointy end of a plane, you can apply the same principles as needed to maintain the analogy. Stop the spin, pull up to level, restore your power settings.
So, in this case, post something for the day, finish up your day end task list, pick some little tasks that can re-establish control and show some progress, get some sleep, then start attacking the bigger, more difficult tasks tomorrow. Get moving, get shit done – if you can identify and complete some higher priority tasks, but get your ass moving.
Good talk. Now, hit post, then clean that monitor, it looks like shit.
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