Look After Yourself: How to?

I say it at the end of every stream: "Look after yourself, you're the only you we've got." It's a good saying to sign off on and I am the worst person at following my own advice. I neglect myself with alarming regularity. I hardly eat, I forget to maintain my meat suit, and I have ended up wrecking it to the point where I need medical intervention. I'm really stacking up the debuffs.

I joke that I have so many issues that I could run a periodicals library.

There's the asthma, which has been and old frenemy since about age eight. There's my dodgy knees, which have been a problem since the age of sixteen. They pretty much make stairs a literal pain at this point in time. There's the anxiety, which was all of my life to date, and may be a product of my late-diagnosed Autism.

It's certainly a byproduct of my time in 1970's to 1990's public schooling.

I have to spend a significant amount of time in self-maintenance, every morning. If I don't, my troubles get worse. If I forget to torment my feet by rolling ice bottles under my feet, and then standing on a broomstick, then my heels will hate me worse after any day I need to walk. If I forget my meds, my health issues will flare up and I'll need to spend more time on self-maintenance. This includes the anxiety, so you know.

And then there's Sneezin' and Wheezin' Season.

My lungs rebel on me, every Spring. Every Autumn. I go through asthma medication as if it were a hot new trend. I'm constantly exhausted because breathing is effort. And there's buggerall I can do to prevent that stuff.

And then I miss things like this week's Patreon submissions, and I nearly miss this week's rant entry.

So I force myself to go harder. Squeeze things into moments between other things, and then feel bad when I have to half-ass stuff. And I do have to half-ass stuff.

The thing I'm most upset about today?

Not filling in my completely arbitrary goal of finishing one chapter of my WIP. The thing I'm allegedly taking it easy with working on. And I'm still kicking myself about the Patreon stuff that I still haven't done.

So. While I'm busy doing other things, I need to remember to be kind to myself. Let myself take my time with things. My Patrons don't mind if I take my time. And I need to recognise that it's okay to have life priorities. I also need to recognise that sometimes I cram too much into one day.

Today's been one of those.

I'm just a human who's allowed to fail. And I'm allowed to take care of this meat suit. And I'm allowed to take my time with things.

And now I make one loaf of bread before bedtime. The other one happens tomorrow.

If anyone has some workable self-hacks, do let me know. I can use some hints and tips.