It turns out I needed some help.  My new year started much like most days off: anxious optimism and a bit of procrastination.  It looked like I was about to spend the afternoon attacked by anxiety when I got a text message from the woman I was supposed to meet for a work date.  Thankfully she knew her own ability to put stuff off and so she reached out to me so she’d motivate and get started.  This set off a chain of events which may very well set the tone for the year.  I snapped into work gear for my NTL duties, and then Thom asked if he could start going through my piles of old and unopened mail.  And just like that I was in gear to attack two separate but equally trying tasks–with some help.  I have a world of people looking out for me, and I need to figure out how best to let them.  And to make sure I follow their lead and help myself as well.