Sometimes I wake up and I can tell just by how I feel that it is going to be a bad start. Maybe even a bad day. During times like this I feel I struggle to balance maintaining myself, managing depression, and maintaining work. All of these things must be done to some degree. The important thing, I think, is to shift my own expectations of myself. I cannot expect the same amount of work being done on a bad day, that I may have done on a good day.
Today is its own day, with its own rhythm and flow. This does not mean I should give up on trying to do all the things I should do, indulging in only what little I want to do, necessarily. The important thing is to get a feel for my own mind and how things are today, and to flow with that, rather than trying to push against it. If it's a slow day, so be it. If I only get so much done(or so little!) so be it. It's okay for it to be a slow day. Or a 'stare at the monitor' counts as 'work' day, if that's all I can manage.
But what if life or my obligations demand more of me than I feel I can give? Well, that's why it's a bad start, isn't it? Something unpleasant has already got me down. To that all I can say is muddle through it until things get better. If it won't kill you, then you'll get through it. In life, almost no mistakes are literally fatal.
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