I have a headache. For someone who almost never has headaches, it is my second rather major one in the 2.5 months at this new job. The first was client induced (I think!) and this second is staff induced (I think!).

I need to stare at the sky and psych myself up to mentally reduce the problems to bit-sized manageable ones. As one of my bosses shared, when we put our problems against the universe, they become really small. This is so true.

And so much of it is us being hard on ourselves. We work even when ill. And when we are too delirious from medication to work, we account for the project status and ask people to help with specific tasks so that things move along. One of my friends even ran a 800m race while having a fever -- taking one for the team. While we Gen-Xers push ourselves hard, the Gen Y-ers, as a friend said, are generally irresponsible.

So now, what do I do? I try to tell myself to smile and laugh. That it's ok to not be perfect (how wrong is that!). And read blogs like Karen Cheng's which put me in a slightly more breezy mood.

Gosh, I can't wait to hire some good people!

Labels: well-being, work