After several months of non-stop busy-ness at work, suddenly performance reviews for the past year and action planning for the next year are done. My calendar is not full of meetings, my incoming email is stream, not a flood.
I find myself not knowing what to do. I've been so conditioned to reacting to "important" things being pushed at me, that I've temporarily lost the ability to choose for myself. Or so it feels.
Part of the feeling may be just the need to settle a bit after an overwhelming period.
There is still plenty to do. I just have more choice about which things to do and how to do them. I have to get used to that again. I can pay more attention to the people who work for me. I can give some of them a helpful, but needed, push. I can gather the energy to tackle some of the projects that have languished because of some particular difficulty or complexity.
I can contemplate what it means that this condition - with more reasonable work load, more choice, and the opportunity to be more proactive and creative - seems to me less comfortable than just being busy.
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