So, I'm back. Kind of.
Four days ago I posted a really short article explaining that I've been feeling kinda bad for a few days and I decided to take a break and relax for a little bit. The problem was fairly simple - my heart was skipping a beat from time to time.
Now, from what I know, that's fairly normal, and a lot of healthy people get that without any particular reason. The problem was that I had that thing for a few days. I still have it now.
I went to my doctor and told him about the problem, and he gave me some pills telling me it's probably just stress and too much work, and Saturday I also went to the hospital for some extra information and I discovered that there's nothing wrong with my heart (they also took some blood to check a few more things), and the palpitations (I think that's what they're called) probably appeared because of all kind of reasons, like stress, work, being too tired, heat, etc.
So, now I'm fairly okay. I'm still experiencing some palpitations from time to time, but with the pills I received from the hospital, it's a lot better than how it was a few days ago, so that's good.
However, I want to make sure I'm gonna be okay in the near future, and that I won't experience this again, or at least not very soon, so I'm gonna make a few changes to the way I work, and I'm gonna start with Steemit.
I started publishing twice a day a long time ago because of two main reasons - first, I wanted to create as much content as I could, and being capable of writing all kind of things fairly fast, I was capable of publishing twice a day without too much effort and second, because I'm not someone who receives a lot of rewards for my work, I thought that publishing twice a day and receiving maybe $0.60 - $0.80 is a lot better than publishing once and receiving half of that.
But, to be honest, as good as you may be at writing and as easy and it may be for you to create content, you will, at some point, get tired, even if you don't notice it. You'll start to get stressed, you'll start to put too much effort into what you do and in time, your health may deteriorate because of that.
Plus, if you're like me and you always care a lot about what you do, getting upset when you kinda fail and forcing yourself to do more and more until you reach the level of quality you desire, well, there's no surprise if you get tired and stressed from doing something as simple as writing short articles every day.
So, the way I'm gonna solve this is by doing something I didn't really want to do, but I have to - I'm gonna stop publishing twice a day and I'm gonna focus on publishing only once.
This way I'm gonna be able to relax a little bit more and to experience less stress when it comes to writing. I'm not saying I'm never gonna publish two articles in a day, I'm just saying that the minimum won't be two any more, but one. Maybe at some point I'll start publishing twice a day again, one article and one recommendation, but that I'll decide in the future.
I'm gonna make a few more changes to other things as well, not related to Steemit, but that remains to be seen. What I know is that I want to spend more time doing other things, like working in Blender, because I really like doing that right now, and avoid stress as much as possible.
That's pretty much all I wanted to say, to give you a short update about how I'm gonna do things from now on. Thanks for being here, and I'll see you tomorrow :)