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This morning I woke up with the feeling that a weight had been lifted off my shoulders.
For weeks, I felt so overwhelmed by work and unenthused by the tasks that I needed to do to keep up with everything. I would come home from work just EXHAUSTED and frustrated, worried that I would have to make a major change (like a new job) to get out from under this cloud.
Yesterday afternoon, I got some clarity. I was getting ready for a meeting about a potential new program with some partners from the neighborhood, and realized that it was THIS DAUNTING TASK (of creating a sports-and-music program for kids which would run once a week during the summer, but without any MONEY or ATHLETES or MUSICIANS or STAFF to run this program...which would start in June!!!!) that was this cloud over my head. I was feeling so inadequate because no matter what I did to get things going, there was an impossible amount of work to do in a short month.
As soon as I could identify this, share this with my staff, and share this with the folks at the meeting, we all agreed that the idea is GREAT but just TOO much for us to accomplish in one month. *SIGH* It feels good to be able to focus my energy in another direction.
So today, I woke up HAPPY. I was delighted to go to work and walk around in the 80 degree weather. And I took an amazing run this afternoon. It feels good to get out from under that cloud.
For weeks, I felt so overwhelmed by work and unenthused by the tasks that I needed to do to keep up with everything. I would come home from work just EXHAUSTED and frustrated, worried that I would have to make a major change (like a new job) to get out from under this cloud.
Yesterday afternoon, I got some clarity. I was getting ready for a meeting about a potential new program with some partners from the neighborhood, and realized that it was THIS DAUNTING TASK (of creating a sports-and-music program for kids which would run once a week during the summer, but without any MONEY or ATHLETES or MUSICIANS or STAFF to run this program...which would start in June!!!!) that was this cloud over my head. I was feeling so inadequate because no matter what I did to get things going, there was an impossible amount of work to do in a short month.
As soon as I could identify this, share this with my staff, and share this with the folks at the meeting, we all agreed that the idea is GREAT but just TOO much for us to accomplish in one month. *SIGH* It feels good to be able to focus my energy in another direction.
So today, I woke up HAPPY. I was delighted to go to work and walk around in the 80 degree weather. And I took an amazing run this afternoon. It feels good to get out from under that cloud.