Book 1 - Ready to go!

I finished the first book! I was hoping to get all three done today but I only had 2 hours at the bindery and I had to redo one book twice because I kept botching up the alignment. Luckily, I was able to get all three books glued together but I only had time to block press one. Here it is!

I will be back at the bindery in a fortnight so will be finishing the remaining 2 then. (Sorry JW! Had to get Soph's done first as her farewell is next week.) There are still seven up for grabs so let me know if you want one.
(Gentle reminder peoples... they're FREE!)

Ok, now I need to get something off my chest. Like a lot of people, my mind indulges in a lot of negative self talk. Over the past two days, I have been replaying a situation that happened at work, over and over again, and it's been really getting me down. I've been beating myself up about how crappily I handled the situation, what I could have said or done instead, and what can I do to make things better? This situation has been dominating my head space and it's left me dreading the week before me... I am literally letting the past destroy my present and my future,

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Ok, as a last resort, as nothing I have done this weekend (as great and fun as the activities have been) has been able to distract me from dwelling on this negative experience, I just tried a NLP reframing exercise. I.e, changing the context and content of a past experience in my mind. (Exercise courtesy of Tony Robbins.)

... And it's worked. The video isn't dominating my headspace anymore.

A miracle? Hmm... Ok, maybe not. The cynic within me is wondering how long this will last.

Let me blog again in a few hours and i'll let you know how it goes.