Recharge Your Day!

well hello how you doing it's daily grateful i'm michael cross and i'm exhausted man i've been at what time is this 9 45 p.m and i haven't got the damn podcast out today and i do one every day five days a week no matter freaking what okay i'm mad at myself but i'm tired you know i'm really really tired and and i have an excuse to be tired i've been working all day on powerpoint about self-publishing and using ai to do it or to help you then i had to go to the tampa bay technology center and give a presentation using my powerpoint then i had to come home and write a newsletter that i write every week that is published on wednesday for the tampa bay technology center and get that emailed off to our club secretary i also emailed her a copy of the powerpoint for my talk that i gave tonight in case anyone wants it and by the way if you want it send an email to secretary at tampa bay technology center i i'm not sure i'll tell you what just go to their website which is tampa-bay.org and find a place on there to email i'm not sure of email but anyway i'll send you i'll send you the powerpoint as well so then i had to come home and eat a baked potato i'm excited about that it was pretty good and uh then i have to record today's podcast i'm gonna record tomorrow's podcast so what do you do when you are exhausted and tired and you need to keep moving all of the things that i used to do yeah some of them work some of them don't work you know what i used to do i can't do it anymore i used to take a power nap uh 10 20 minutes i was good to go i was ready to fly you know or then sometimes i just stop everything and i do deep breathing and i try and get myself real quiet the other thing that's important for me is to hydrate because you know dehydration zaps my energy and i am just blah the other thing that i didn't do today which i usually do is to move my body you know light exercise just a good walk would help and i might take the good walk between recording this podcast i'm going to release tonight and the podcast i'm going to release tomorrow morning just kind of get myself going a little bit you know and the other thing that i do is i prioritize and i do it ruthlessly i i just get my ass in gear and i just make things a priority that's what i do to deal with being tired now if i want to take a 20 minute nap right now 10 or 20 minute nap i would be waking up at about 7 o'clock tomorrow morning so we can't do that one i am drinking so i'm doing that uh healthy snack attack that's what i'm holding here in my hands zach went to the store and he bought me a healthy snack i'm not gonna eat it until i'm done recording uh but maybe i should have he bought me two hostess cupcakes oh my god they look delicious ah darn it why didn't i eat those before i started i miss my healthy snack but uh you know i'm getting out of the slump right now just by being here and talking to you so i hope you're having an absolute terrific day this is a short one and for that i apologize i truly do and i hope that you take care of yourself better than i took care of myself today and take time to rest yeah because when i'm done recording and uploading my happy ass is going to bed i'm crawling under the covers grabbing onto my two favorite pillows they're feather pillows by the way i'm a feather pillow kind of guy i'm not a foam pillow kind of guy i'm a feather pillow kind of guy and these pillows are old hope you're having a terrific day we will talk to you tomorrow you