Does Boxing Day still have the same flavour and ring to it that it used to? Does it matter anymore now that so much can be online? Should we be treating it a different way now? How many decorations come down today? The holiday can stay, but maybe the purpose and reason can change to something else.
Or was it productive? Maybe not in the way that you had previously defined productivity but maybe in a completely different way. Every day can be productive, it just depends on how we define it and what we measure it against. But even if it wasn’t, don’t call it a bad day.
I write this knowing I am out there shopping right now. I wish this wasn’t true but it invariably is. Today is the last day, you waited until the last possible moment. And now you’re frazzled and have to hustle to get it done. Calm down, breathe, go get it, there are lots of hours in the day.
Now the question is whether you want to hear it or whether you’d rather keep getting it wrong. One is a step towards fixing the problem. The other isn’t a step backward or forward -it’s just a way for you to stay busy, to keep working on something, to keep looking like you’re making changes. But you’re not, you’re just doing it wrong. Can you hear that you are doing it wrong and make change?
Every Math test I would take in high school ended that way – “Pencils Down” – as though I had created some masterful creation that was perfect and could no longer get any better. It was at this moment, when all hands were up that we’d look around at other people’s papers and either smile in agreement or become immediately dejected at having received the wrong answer. When leaving jobs, this is the new “Pencils…