The AM routines continue, and I've start adding in a brief post-listening step to capture/reflect on whatever I listen to in the AM. Because it's all to easily forgotten as the 'feed' of content progresses. It feels like a delicate art, managing pace, breadth and focus of all the content on podcasts and apps. I struggle with retaining something from 5 min ago when something else is already in my face for injection. So, today, I just stopped at the end and captured the key takeaways. Things like maintaining focus by recognizing distracting thoughts as such and trusting they'll return later, being conscious about holding onto and recognizing small moments of good and letting it 'land' and stick, recognizing habits you want to improve as things that make you feel better and thus, as investments, and a favorite concept, the connected nature of everything, people pets plants whatever - everything being sentient. That's a lot to take in over 30min or so. Daily. Which makes me thing that my current focus on numerous habits and focuses may be too aggressive. At least, perhaps, the frequency. Writing something, anything, daily, can still be too much, so maybe I'll lower my goal just a bit. When I started this, I figured a few weeks in I'd start to adapt and adjust, without abandoning. So I am. Work was good, really good day of engagement on my part. Managed to make headway on a slew of initiatives and even, finally, found a pretty effective way to manage my tasks and status within Jira. Big time saver to centralize and streamline the weekly content generation. Progress made on internships as well and on some OPS focuses. I'm taking tomorrow off, extending the 3 day weekend into 4. I have some high priority tasks still on my list and will be focused on one or more, along with the scheduled covid tests for Lauren, calling Lindsey, picking up Matt B, and Tommy's Tahoe departure tomorrow PM. My friend dealing with addiction issues has 'gone dark' and is unresponsive. That's really hard to manage. I'm angry, because it leaves me in a position of being uncertain if they're dead or on a bender or who-knows-what. All I know is that I'm stuck waiting for them to resurface, hopefully, and having been through this before, as much as I want the best for them, well, I can understand how these sort of dynamics kill friendships and relationships. I can only hope for the best. We'll see what happens tomorrow.