If i ever thought it would take a 3 week old to keeping me from keeping my cool I would have thought myself wrong. But I admit there are hours that are more of a challenge. I think the worse is the feeding or the lack thereof. It is hard to feel you need 'time off' after that one hour and a half and you can't help but feel like sh*** because you are not supposed to need time off! And plus the rest is also the fun stuff, so you want to be doing fun stuff too... But you just can't do it all because that weighs on your sanity. I guess I need the sanity more than the sleep so I will try to go back to my old self and sleep less to stretch the day. Let's see how that works out!
I heard what is likely to become one of my top 3 favourite quotes on a podcast on Friday. "Time is the only real democratic asset. We are all awarded the same time, it is what we do with it that distinguishes us". Now, I recognise that most of us need to work with survive and that is not democratic throughout. But on an equal opportunity basis, this is an interesting way of putting it. For many years I did not understand why MS thought my resume was so interesting. In fact, they chased me during the entire recruitment process, even though I had no idea of moving to London or Finance. I wanted to be a consultant and stay in Lisbon forever. But traditional consultants in Portugal saw nothing in me, and MS did not let me go. When I started screening resumes and hiring people a couple of years later is when I understood why I was different. TIME. I was truly different about what I did with my time. Not necessarily the basics - choice of degree or anything. But really ...
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