My life has been very full of doing things lately, as prescribed by my phrase of the year. I can’t say my life is terribly balanced at the moment. I haven’t done any legit physical exercise in over a week and I miss eat. My body is giving me hell for not taking care of it much lately. The house, it needs a good, deep cleaning. We’ll get there. Baby steps.

Much of what I’ve been doing outside of work is studying. Those college classes I signed up for started out quietly, giving me the false sense of, ‘Hey, this is going to be no sweat,’ and grown into a heavier load with each passing week. I can’t say the content is stretching my mind too much at the moment. I’m learning things here and there, but really the classes I’m taking at the moment are more refresher than anything.

But oh, the busy work. So much busy work. It’s eating into what little free time I already have and serving as a reminder that even small changes require sacrifices. To get my work done might mean not indulging a novel or blogging or running every single day. It won’t be in vain though when what I’m doing now leads to bigger, more fruitful changes.

The beauty of it is that as little as six months ago I saw frustration, stagnation and the unattainable, but I’m now seeing potential and opportunity. Some of that potential may be revealing itself faster than expected, which blows my mind and excites me. And the tipping point was just deciding to sign up for some college courses to expand my skill set and then doing it — that somehow changed my entire worldview.