# Daily Updates #

Have today off work to study, I've been all productive writing my lists and preparing my study area but not managed to get much actual work done. 

I think I'm approaching shut down, not in a desperate sort of way but my head is full of thoughts about all the changes at work and I'm missing my mum who lives in a different local authority area. My husbands mum is lovely and checks in on us but it's not the same as your own mum. 

I'm going to go across to the co-op and get a pot noodle for my lunch, they're my go-to food when I'm feeling rubbish and I'm addicted to the Bombay one. 

lucky u, my employer said "no" to time off to study !

with a blank page and a pencil or even better , a multicoloured pen

write your thought and worries and thing u need to do, down on the page  each in its own bubble/cloud

next make a cup of tea/coffee 

and then return and start to organise ways ( add notes in smaller bubbles  ) to each cloud

add a priority to each cloud

then tackle the clouds by priority

I'm a funded student so my employer gets a budget to cover me for study time around the exams and essays. Today is a quiet day at work so I don't think they'll pay someone to come in and do my job but if they'd been busy there was money in a pot somewhere to do that. 

I'm doing pretty much what you've recommended. I'll start adding my thoughts and see if putting them on paper gets them out of my head for a bit.

yea its standard "mind mapping" stuff  --- it just a way to get them out of your head, like u said, but also so you can see them which then uses the most powerful part of your brain, the visual cortex. 

i use Visualisation as a way to solve problems

yea its standard "mind mapping" stuff  --- it just a way to get them out of your head, like u said, but also so you can see them which then uses the most powerful part of your brain, the visual cortex. 

i use Visualisation as a way to solve problems