As I mentioned on Monday, I feel as though my life has swung a bit out of balance. I can't go around dragging every afternoon and sleeping my way through my weekends.

That means that I need to make some changes in my life. Rather than try to make a radical change, I'm trying some incremental changes:

• I'm abandoning my practice of intermittent fasting (though I will still fast for immigrants and refugees on Fridays). I was no longer losing weight (though it was helping me maintain) and I think it was limiting my energy. On days I was fasting, I was exhausted by mid-afternoon. I'm hoping that I can re-energize myself so that I can get outside and run. That will likely do me at least as much good.
• As much as I love my lists and planning, I need to step away from the weekly lists. Those tend to be a bit ambitious, pushing me to do more and more. Instead, I'm making it my practice to limit myself to a daily list, made each morning once I get a sense of my energy level. I'm hoping that will encourage me to make more realistic lists based on what I need to accomplish that day.
• No new additions to my schedule for a while. My current docket is pretty full: this blog and my monthly newsletter; upcoming marches; an editing project; four articles; spring cleaning; two races to train for; and, a variety of hosting, from dinners and teas to house guests. That means that craft projects, the blog redesign, and a new book proposal will need to wait until I clear a few more things.

I'm not going to become a hermit or abandon my commitments, but I need to dial back the productivity expectations and slow my pace a bit. I'll give it until the end of April and re-evaluate. By then, I'll have finished a march, the editing project, and at least one article. Let's see how it goes.