Thread by @curious500bc

0520-0630
During this period, Liban started editing yesterday’s work. He wants to make this a routine, editing yesterday’s work. He also desires to journal about security and politics, also edit the work next day, thereby building materials to be edited twice before publishing.

Liban exercised and edited materials during this period. He will start preparations for the day and present short religious presentation in multiple languages, also to be edited next day before passing two more editing for final publications.

Liban’s mood is not great m, titling towards morose. He wants to be thriving again, and he not doing that yesterday, suggesting lying back on bed for a longer period is not conducive to thriving. He wants to thrive, so be it. He will do tai chi, prayers and meditations

0630-0830, these two hours, Liban did an excellent presentation. 0830-0900; during this time, he finished writing the presentation. 0900-1000, during this period, he was in pain, headache despite eating Tylenol; so, he distracted himself to forget about the pain, unconsciously

1000-1120 ; Liban spent about 20 minutes meditating; the rest of the time he was resolving some billing issues. And then he wanted to know about an interpreter who gave wrong interpretation to a tourist in Tanzania; the interpretation was hilarious. He learned nothing from it.

Liban suspects the pain on his left side may be due to lack of focused activities; as he focuses, he expects, pain will decrease and finally disappear. He will document this today.

Liban has forced himself to edit old works for 52 minutes. He did. He will take break now and then do another session.

1130-1530, that is about 4 hours. Liban has finished one session of work (52 minutes) , after two short sessions of sleep( 40 minutes total ), that is about 2 hours. Again he slept longer about 1.5 hours. Then he spent another about 20 minutes browsing for no apparent reason.

He did longer sleep to cure his headache; that was not good strategy, to use sleep to cure headache. This desire for sleep may be originating from being on the bed working, since he associates it with sleep. He will use another spot to work while lying on the back

He will also introduce taking a walk outside periodically to get fresh air, tolerate the pain and work; also figure out why it does not happen when he is working and happens only or often when he works at home.

1630, 1530-1630, Liban did some editing and posted some tweets. Otherwise, he returned back to being distracted. Distraction being his major challenge. He will employ various relaxation strategies, including moving and sitting techniques to prevent from distraction.

1630-2000, apart from few administrative tasks, Liban spent most of the time sitting in his car, browsing his phone, while buying or transporting groceries. He forget about his pain and pain is gone gradually.

He did not want to remember his pain so he distracted himself; attempts to stop this did not succeed. He needs new strategies to remain fully focused for a longer period of time, otherwise he will continue to report failures.

This also tells him that interpretation of events is something done by his unconscious mind; it is sort of things that occurs to him after exposure to some materials. This is what he wants to tap into.

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