Mon. Feb. 7, 2022: Intent for the Week — Glow With the Work Flow
image courtesy of AndiP via pixabay.comI originally meant to write “Flow with the Work Flow” but typed “Glow” instead. When I thought about it, that’s what I actually mean.
I keep beating myself up about not being “productive enough.” Yet, when I look at what I get done in any given week, it’s quite a bit.
It’s simply not always what I thought I would get done at the start.
I love my work. In order to keep lvoing it, I need to get out of my own way and stop the toxic productivity narrative I had when working in someone else’s office. Each day is unique. The reason I work freelance/remote is so that I CAN create my own schedule each day and it is not set.
I can take time in the middle of the day for necessary errands, or to take a walk or go to the library and root around the archives.
I can take a break when I’m tired in the middle of the day, and then work later at night.
It’s not a “failure” to take off a few hours in the afternoon and then work at night, if the work at night flows better during that time.
The workdays we’ve been trained to put in for other people, and to overwork additional hours (too often unpaid) for other people are constructs to serve their profit, not to fit our creativity and work energy. There are ways to still be reliable and responsible, meeting deadlines, obligations, and earning money, that don’t force these rigid parameters.
Instead of beating myself up about not getting everything and more done during “traditional” working hours, I’m going to “glow with the flow” this week, work on what my energy is best suited for at any given time, while still meeting my deadlines, and, as long as I’m not working sixteen hour days for eight hours’ worth of pay, not tell myself I’ve “failed” if there’s still work to do outside of traditional hours.
What is your intent this week?
