Reflections – Page 2 – Iain Douglas Stewart

I don’t know where my motivation has gone

By Iain 11 August 2022Physicality, Reflections, The MissionNo Comments

I try and keep it positive on here, which is why it's been quiet recently. A lot of negativity in my life right now. Stuck in a slump and I just don't know which way to go. Work is awful right now, people have been leaving for years and have not been replaced, and it's got to the point now…

Monday service: Goblin mode

By Iain 28 March 2022ReflectionsNo Comments

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/03/17/goblin-mode-meaning/ I wish I'd never heard about Goblin mode... I feel awful that there's a name and a description of how things are going for me right now. I'm still recovering from the way the pandemic conditioned us to all stay inside, many of us are. I think I've said this before; I wasn't the most social of people in…

Sunday service: Rollercoasters go down as well as up

By Iain 20 March 2022ReflectionsNo Comments

Just been feeling a little bit down this week. Can't pinpoint it on anything really. I smashed the next section of the coaching course I'm doing via Association of Learning - after it was returned to me because I didn't do the Harvard referencing and citations properly though... I can't say I'm a fan of having to reference stuff, I…

Monday service: A fear of success

By Iain 14 March 2022Reflections, The MissionNo Comments

This may be a day late again, but it's really no big deal. As long as it's once a week and honest, it's all good. This last week I made a lot of progress on the coaching course I'm currently doing - I was really cranking out the words, I think I wrote about 2000 all told, with research and…

Monday Service: A day late but that’s ok

By Iain 7 March 2022Reflections, The MissionNo Comments

Last week was productive. I wrote a little piece about it being the third anniversary of Keith Flint's death. I had been sitting on it for a while, juggling it around in my head until it made sense, then when I realised the anniversary was a couple of days away, I wrote it up. The timing was perfect as it…

Sunday Service: Half-term

By Iain 27 February 2022Creativity, Reflections, The MissionNo Comments

So this last week was half term for my lovely little boy, which meant that there was not as much progress on the goals as usual. It was more of a "thinking" week rather than a "doing" week. I brought along my planners and notebooks when I took Jake to soft play, reviewed some ideas and solidified some others. Once…

Sunday Service: Good week

By Iain 20 February 2022Reflections, Site Related, The Mission, VideogamesNo Comments

Wow. What a week I've had. I had two morning workouts, taken my supplements every morning, and I've felt motivated to DO STUFF, which I really have not felt for a long time. It's a nice feeling. I've bought some domains, and both have functioning websites on them. One even has Woo Commerce turned on and is integrated with Gelato,…

Four bags!

By Iain 13 February 2022Reflections, The Mission, VideogamesNo Comments

I filled four bags with my old clothes. Crazy. It was mostly old stuff that doesn't fit anymore, but some of it I don't think suited me nowadays, or wouldn't suit the person I'm projecting my self to be. Also sorted out my supplements for the next two weeks and had a tidy. Threw out a lot of stuff. Plan…

5 years

By Iain 10 February 2022Reflections, The MissionNo Comments

In February 2017 I had a breakdown. When you hit rock bottom, that's when you can look up and see how far it is back to the top. I made a plan. A five year plan. It was going well. I was on course. Driving lessons going well, learning how to be a counsellor. Completed most of my action plan.…

We had Covid

By Iain 25 January 2022ReflectionsNo Comments

Jake brought covid home from school with him a couple of weeks ago. It quickly infected me, then Jane, and to a milder extent, Jane's mum and dad. We had a round of PCR tests, and they came back positive. Ten days of quarantine, or isolation, or whatever you want to call it. I was glad for the time off…