Today the realisation hit me that I was headed towards a burnout if I didn't pace myself well or discipline myself into having sufficient rest. I suppose that for something that I've been anticipating this badly for my entire life, the motivation and willingness to pour my entire soul, body and mind into this programme is unsurprising, even for myself.
But I realised, as I was playing squash back at Cashew today, that I wasn't my usual self. I was on an adrenaline high from having spent most of the week and my weekend studying away. I mean, I enjoy the work I'm doing so much that it doesn't really take much of an effort to drain myself mentally. So I was in the courts, and my mind wasn't there at all. Nope, I don't think that it was my three-week absence from the courts that was dampening my mental processing. I couldn't read the game at my usual pace. I was losing concentration.
It was then that I started asking myself, what kind of advice would I give any student, in maintaing a healthy balance. Sleep, nutrition, exercise, vitamins, concentrated periods of study, a balanced diet, and a good environment to study in.
So that's my new aim: to do my morning runs as I did when working in FAIMS, and sleep before 12.30am everyday. Let's try this for a week and see how it goes. Bring on week 2!
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