What Do You Do When You Feel Like You Can’t Win?

When you feel like you can’t win you always have options.

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The past couple of weeks have not been good.

I got COVID. Even though I took lots of precautions and was as vaccinated and boosted as possible — I still got sick. However — it was no worse than a cold, and there seem to be no lingering effects. Vaccines work — thank you, science.

Right on top of that, my mother-in-law had to be hospitalized. Without oversharing, she’s doing better now — but there remains a lot of recovery ongoing and work for my wife and sister-in-law to come.

My wife spent a week at her mom’s place so that I could isolate myself. We missed doing our usual Christmas stuff between COVID and her mom’s hospitalization, and nearly missed New Year’s. I tested negative, she finally came home — feeling like garbage. And now she has tested positive for COVID.

To add to this, when taking a detailed look at book sales and earnings from writing, I learned I’m earning close enough to nothing to need to consider a new approach.

This is a lose-lose situation, right?

Here I am, at the start of a new year, feeling like I can’t win. I can let that sink in, feel bad about it and myself, and sink into a nice, deep…