The pandemic affected my life in many ways beginning in the middle of March 2020. My entire office was sent home to work remotely. They said it was temporary. Temporary became permanent by December 2020. My job responsibilities or the way they were completed did not change. The only change was that I now went to work in my living room. But my personal life sure transformed.
I Lost My Happiness
Those first few months were exciting. I was going to organize my house, purge closets, paint walls, landscape my backyard, etc. Then my enthusiasm started disappearing. “I’ll do it later” became easier each day until I lost all ambition. My life had become dull. Without any awareness, I lost all discipline and motivation. Beyond work, I unwittingly destroyed all structure in my personal life. The pandemic produced isolation. And with that, the boredom had quietly crept up on me and I had settled into mediocrity.
My Big Plan
Although I was still a happy person it was not as much as before. One day before my psyche melted any further, I began searching for ways to get back the lost enthusiasm. With pencil and paper, I evaluated my life with a massive brain dump. What made me happy and what sucked the happiness out of my life? What improvements did I want to make? How could I become more productive and stop procrastinating? Finally, I made decisions concerning my career and how to implement those changes. I was on the road to finding happiness.
Here We Go
This blog will be about finding happiness. My unscientific experiments, my failures, what worked, and what I would like to tackle next. Setting up this website was a huge win! I hope you will get ideas from my blog to try in your life.
Up next week: I Was Not Disciplined.