A recipe for disaster

I've been a bit of a tool today

A bit moody, 
Head in phone,
Impatient, 
Short, 
Distracted, 
Not particularly helpful. 

It's so easy to fall into the brain trap of false attribution when you aren't feeling great. 

Life sucks, 
I suck, 
something's wrong with me, 

I've eaten something wrong or what ever lens you happen to be looking at your life through at the moment. 

You have a few bad days and end up acquiring an intolerance to tomatoes or yellow or people who say amazeballs or totes. 

We still have a ton to do and we've had another day where circumstances have resulted in zero progress. 

Lack of progress frustrates me, 
A messy house frustrates me, 

To add to that I've been feeling like I have the brain and stomach fog that you get with travel sickness. 

Something I find really useful, is recipes. 

I have recipes for feeling good, if I follow all the ingredients I'm my best self. 

I have recipes for feeling bad, when all the ingredients are present I feel crap. The bonus of this system is that if one or two of the ingredients appears I can take steps to remove them. 

My final tool is the 'takeaway' the thing that wipes the slate clean when it's all going wrong. 

This one is pretty big because it's normally at this stage we go and get wasted or eat a load of junk and continue the spiral. 

For me it's a brutal workout or a long walk or in some cases, a nap. 

Today, was a nap, 
Just 10 mins,
Back on my game. 

Have a great Friday night folks 

Ed Ley