I have been going to River Valley Health and ploughing a lot of money into being a better person. Mostly this has been working on running related issues (therapeutic massage, physical assessment, chiropractor), but I am getting some life coaching as well. It has been helpful, with a friend commenting that I am less Eeyore-like. (Besides the fact that that is my favourite Pooh character.)
I used some new advice when I went out to an event at a bar yesterday. It was one of the best times I’ve had in a place where I was surrounded by alcohol and people I didn’t know. The advice could mostly be summed up as “be in the moment”. I have a tendency to zone out at bars and start thinking about things in the future or regrets of the past. This time, whenever it happened, I would go do something. Which ended up mostly being talk to someone, either someone I did know or someone I didn’t.
The unfortunate side-effect of this is that, as an introvert, I was mentally exhausted by the end of the night. I may have started to zone out again. I certainly couldn’t have gone to the after party.