A note to self: on being out of office
I had last week off for spring break.
My first day back, I wrote myself this note. Thought you’d like to read it, too, FIRST NAME…
Note to self (upon returning to work from a week off):
You are much less anxious and uptight when you take time off from work.
Schedule in a week off at the end of every quarter. Just do it. Quit arguing with me that you're more "productive" when you plug away at work in a slow burn fashion.
Schedule that shit in and respect that time off. It's sacred.
Use that week off as a resting period to fuel up for the next sprint.
I know you.
You like to get stuff done fast when you're excited. Excitement is your fuel. You want to make something happen NOW.
That's cool... but so is knowing when it's time to chill out, sip a beer, and go on long walks or all-day adventures with your most special people who are your three sons and BFF husband.
Remember: it takes you about five days to unplug from email.
Accept that you're addicted and there's a detaching period. It's gonna hurt to not check email. You're gonna feel compelled, nay, itchy-figured-obsessed to check it, but resist the feeling.
Tell yourself: "it's handled. There's an OOO autoresponder up and a strict no email policy in place."
You're allowed to have time off.
You're allowed to not check email.
When that urge goes away on day five, your brain feels more expansive.
This is the magic.
Ideas start to flow in.
That's what you're looking for during this week off.
Life is about more than obtaining Inbox Zero (ha, unattainable and silly), replying to every email within 10 mins (seriously?!), and feeling unhealthily indispensable to your clients (that's a co-dependent relationship and one worth reconsidering).
Remember how you felt when you did something new.
Remember how you felt when you sat, feet propped up on the couch, drinking morning coffee, and watching your two youngest sons laugh and play together.
Two white-faced dogs snoring on the living room floor, back legs of one dog twitching in a squirrel chasing dream, the only running he does these days thanks to arthritic hips.
Remember the ease. The leisureliness of the moment where time slowed for that moment to blossom and plant in your memory.
Remember the expansiveness of space, new ideas and adventures.
Remember the life you're building…
…and how the most important things in life aren't things.
You’re amazing,
Laura
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