Feeling a bit stressed (but it's ok)

I hate to write posts like these but I feel it's something that I need to do to move on and continue improving forward, it's a bit therapeutical for me.

During the past few weeks I've been feeling extrange about my work and my speed. I am not feeling as productive as I want to be. This is not something new to me, but a constant thing I go through every year probably. Some may call it being burned out, or having creativity block. For me it's loss of focus.

I lost focus in January, after the holydays. During december I experienced a 100% growth on my number of Patreons, going from 300 to 600. It was pretty crazy and exciting, and a total adrenaline rush.

That adrenaline rush passed quickly, but it left me with a feeling of wanting to keep growing and producing content at the same full speed. It led me to loose focus on my best method of working: just doing it. Every single day. And growing little by little.

As a consequence of that I started to feel a bit anxious, self aware of my lack of content and discipline, and super bad about not being as active and cheerful as I am used to be on my Discord and other social media sites. Trying to work with a feeling of guilt it's not optimal. Also this not only leads to work issues, but also I stoped working out and my sleeping habits changed as well (for the worse)

So here I am now, a bit of a mess but taking my little steps to go back to my slow and steady way of working. Because I know I can do it and I've been here before.

The past has tought me that I need to speak about this with people, so today I spoke about this with my wife who is the person that supports me the most, and now I am speaking with you as well, for the same reasons.

With this out of my chest, I'll try to get back at my regular speed.

Thank you!