Are You Ok?
Are you ok? I’m checking in with you to see if you’re doing alright.
Are you ok? I’m checking in with you to see if you’re doing alright.
This year might turn out to be not such a great year for a lot of people. Next year will be better.
Everybody is stressed. There’s a lot going on!
Try to remember two things: First, stress impacts your performance.
Some of us have claimed to be better under pressure. In retrospect that was a mistake. It did not contemplate trying to <gestures aimlessly at laptop> during a pandemic, a war, the collapse of Western civilization, and global climate calamity.
So, let’s give ourselves a break.
Second: Everybody else is stressed, too. It all impacts them, too.
Half of all people are handling it a little better than you, half of them are taking it a little worse.
Let’s try to give them a break, as well.
While all of this is going on, some bad things are going to happen to you.
Whatever happens, remember that it came during a historically awful time.
We are all making mistakes. We are going to do better next year.
This morning I am going to look in the mirror, look at my inbox, look at this floundering draft in Word and say to myself:
You know what, under the circumstances, this is really not that bad.
And I’m going to do better next year.