I’ll accept that I’m not going to be at my sharpest or shiniest in the first week of January. But that’s OK – because neither is anyone else.
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.
But fast-forward to midday on my second day, and this energetic, can-do version of myself had shamefully failed to show up. Instead, the old me was working on my laptop in my bed, fighting off a cold, wearing the biggest, oldest jumper I own. 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.
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