post-holiday work vibes? big sad

Published 3 days ago • 2 min read

Took time off and now I'm "paying" for it 🥲

Not sure about you, Reader, but I didn't get nearly as much done pre-holidays as I planned to.

Too busy recording new music and playing Monopoly with my fam, I guess.

I also thought I'd work yesterday ... haha

So today I dragged my semi-still-sick ass online to look at a long list of overdue tasks. 😬

(BTW, have children always been such a danger to those of us without kids?!?! insta-sick every single time)

There's literally no worse way to come back to work after giving yourself some time off than to a feeling of INSTANT overwhelm.

Although, I guess you can be worse off when there wasn't a plan in place before you checked out.

Bc it's a LOT easier (and a lot faster) to get out of that fml state when you do.

Which when you really get down to it, that's why Focus Framework works so well.

Making a plan? Not the hard part. Everyone's doing some version of that.

The hard part is when the plan doesn't... go to plan.

When you take a couple unplanned days off, come back to a wall of overdue, and feel like you need to start all over again.

With Focus Framework, the plan you make is the plan you iterate. (I just came up with that and I think it's here to stay)

That means today I'll work my way through each of my original focuses and re-orient one by one.

That looks like moving priorities around, maybe removing priorities entirely, and adding or changing the subtasks accordingly... so EVENTUALLY my plan for today is no longer a long list of angry red. 😡

This is what that actually looks like in practice.

Starting with this newsletter which is coming to you in 3... 2... 1...

Wait, actually. One more thing before I go:

My man Greg did me a solid by putting together a sweet little totally unsolicited review of Focus Framework.

I will say, it's been WILD hearing him mirror back to me the exact same transformation I had:

His before, which may as well be a torn page from my journal:

"I used to start my day feeling incredibly anxious and kind of annoyed with myself because I didn't feel like I had a proper handle on what I needed to do"

To his after, which is exactly why I haven't been stressing about taking the days that I originally planned to work:

"Everything's there in one place... that gives me this wonderful peace of mind when I'm not working, which means I can enjoy what I'm doing when I'm not working"

K, I've got work to do so I'll catch you next week when the Fresh Start sale finally drops 🙃

Enjoy the holiday rot my friend,

Robyn

Robyn Henke

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