For many people, today marks the start of the first full week back at work after the Christmas break.
Add this article to your list of favouritesBut don’t be tricked into thinking you have to have your shit together, saysSomewhere in the strange, bleary hinterland between Christmas and New Year – that befuddling period when nobody knew what day it was, and I’d been wearing the same pair of slipper socks for a shamefully long time – I decided to sit down and think about my
I follow lots of brilliant, accomplished women on social media, and regularly feel slightly guilty as I read their posts about their thriving side hustles and their plans for the next steps in their glittering careers. These women, clearly, are strategic about their work. I am not being self-deprecating when I say I couldn’t strategise my way out of a wet paper bag.So in the run-up to my return to work, I felt fired up.
But even though it’s normal to feel sluggish upon returning to work, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was letting myself down, somehow; that I should be raring to go, rather than wishing I could crawl back under my duvet until February.