Distractions: The Best Medicine

During the COVID pandemic, many people like myself got work from home full-time. While this had it's advantages, such as not wasting time on the commute to the office, it also came with an interesting side-effect for me.....monotony.

I would be in my office ten minutes after getting out of bed. Sometimes I would just put my laptop on my knees as I laid on the couch under a blanket. Anything to avoid routine, to interrupt the monotony. If I let the routine get too entrenched it could consume me. I needed the equivalent of the "canary in the coal mine" to warn me before the danger became too great.