Next session, cut the volume of anything new roughly in half compared to what feels reasonable on the day. Enthusiasm on day one is what produces day four, and you'll make faster progress over a month by turning up three times slightly under-cooked than by turning up once and hobbling.
Bo
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Came for the stretching, stayed for the breathing, and now sequences around it.
Small thing, but delete the ones from the old job today, before anything else. Seeing tasks from a life you don't live any more is a surprisingly heavy tax every time you open the app.
One thing that helped more than any app: I wrote down what would actually happen in the worst case. Not vaguely, specifically, including the money side and how many months I'd have. Reading that back made the whole thing feel like a manageable downside rather than a cliff, and the spikes got much smaller.
Also, get a spotter or use the pins before you try a new top single again. Getting stapled once is a story, twice is how people stop benching altogether. Set the safeties so a failed rep lands on steel and not on you.
Track actual hours for one week before you decide anything. Not estimated, actual, in 30 minute blocks. Everyone in this situation is either working four hours a day more than they think or two hours a day less, and you cannot make a good decision on a number you invented.
Same here, and adding a couple of light sets at 40% before jumping to working weight made more difference than any mobility drill I tried.
Worth naming what's underneath this: processing means deciding, and deciding is more tiring than capturing. That's why the inbox grows. Doing it at a fixed low-stakes time, with a drink, when nothing else is expected of you, makes it much more likely to happen than trying to be disciplined about it at 4pm.
Also accept that some words just end in unknown, and that a dictionary saying origin uncertain is being honest rather than lazy. The urge to have a clean answer for everything is what keeps the folk versions in circulation.
Splitting mine in two was what made it stick. Twenty minutes Friday to close the week down, clear inboxes, tidy the list, and twenty minutes Monday morning to plan. Two short things I'll actually do beat one long thing I dread by a mile.