![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Levels of Bliss
Apr. 1st, 2015 09:45 amSleep.
1 – When I don’t have to set my alarm for my second interval of sleep, the one that happens after D. leaves for school, and can just wake up when I’ve had enough sleep.
2 – When I don’t have to split my sleep into two intervals, because D. doesn’t have school, and I don’t have to set my alarm.
3 – When I don’t have to split my sleep into two intervals, and my body doesn’t automatically wake me up after 5 or 6 hours because it expects to have to get up to get D. off to school, and instead I get to sleep for 7 or 8 continuous hours and then wake up when I’ve had enough sleep. Yay!
Work.
1 – When I’m making enough progress on other people’s deadlines that I can anticipate soon being done with them so I can get back to what I most want to be working on.
2 – When I’ve finished meeting one of someone else’s deadlines, such that I can reliably expect that at least this one person won’t come back to me needing more for a while, so that I am only juggling maybe two or three other things I have to finish before I can get back to the stuff I most want to be working on.
3 – When there’s only one or two other things I have to finish before I can get back to the stuff I most want to be working on, and those things feel finite and reasonably attainable in the very next day or two.
4 – When I can focus productively on the very things I want most to be working on, and I’ve been meeting meaningful milestones and getting that slight bit of external validation that keeps me feeling there’s a point to it all beyond self-indulgence.
Today I am at Sleep Bliss Level 1 and Work Bliss Level 2. Two types of bliss in one day, with the prospect of even more tomorrow! Time to get back to sleep.
1 – When I don’t have to set my alarm for my second interval of sleep, the one that happens after D. leaves for school, and can just wake up when I’ve had enough sleep.
2 – When I don’t have to split my sleep into two intervals, because D. doesn’t have school, and I don’t have to set my alarm.
3 – When I don’t have to split my sleep into two intervals, and my body doesn’t automatically wake me up after 5 or 6 hours because it expects to have to get up to get D. off to school, and instead I get to sleep for 7 or 8 continuous hours and then wake up when I’ve had enough sleep. Yay!
Work.
1 – When I’m making enough progress on other people’s deadlines that I can anticipate soon being done with them so I can get back to what I most want to be working on.
2 – When I’ve finished meeting one of someone else’s deadlines, such that I can reliably expect that at least this one person won’t come back to me needing more for a while, so that I am only juggling maybe two or three other things I have to finish before I can get back to the stuff I most want to be working on.
3 – When there’s only one or two other things I have to finish before I can get back to the stuff I most want to be working on, and those things feel finite and reasonably attainable in the very next day or two.
4 – When I can focus productively on the very things I want most to be working on, and I’ve been meeting meaningful milestones and getting that slight bit of external validation that keeps me feeling there’s a point to it all beyond self-indulgence.
Today I am at Sleep Bliss Level 1 and Work Bliss Level 2. Two types of bliss in one day, with the prospect of even more tomorrow! Time to get back to sleep.