The Daily Stoic: Impossible Without Your Consent | When Work Gets Overwhelming

Today I escaped from the crush of circumstances, or better put, I threw them out, for the crush wasn’t from outside me but in my own assumptions.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 9.13

Do not get me wrong. I love my work and I am grateful to be able to do what i do for a living. Being a civil servant is a proper career. My work offers me on a daily basis opportunities to learn new things and grow. And the possibility to work from the comfort of my home is yet another perks of my job.

But sometimes, when things get though, my work – and the responsibilities that comes with it – can be quite overwhelming. More often than not, I question myself if I am equal to the task.

Spring, Running, and Stoicism

It is such a wonderful day today. The spring has finally arrived and I love it! So, after a long day of working from home and being nailed down on my desk, I have decided to go out, enjoy this beautiful day and have a run.

It is a common knowledge that running is beneficial not only to our body but also to our mind. It almost sounds trite to say so, but it is just very true.

My evil twin brother named anxiety has got the best of me in the last few weeks. It has been very stressful at work lately and I worry that I am not equal to the task. This is very stressful and really affects my state of mind.

Back and Blogging Again After a While…

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It has been almost a month since the last time I wrote something on this beloved blog of mine. But tonight, here I am, sitting behind my desk and filling this empty page with words coming though my finger tips.

Time has come to pick up where I left. I am ready to write again.

In the last few weeks, I have been distracted. Then motivation plummeted. Inspirations seem scarce and out of reach. I do not know what to write. And if I know what to write, the words seem to have abandoned me.