Get Comfortable During Slow Times: Creating Spaces To Just Be In Our Professional And Personal Lives

What are we talking about today? We are going to discuss that uncomfortable feeling when things slow down at work and you aren’t running around with your hair on fire or if a project is winding down or about to complete, and you feel like you can breathe.Here’s how I feel during these times:I feel bad for not running at a million miles per hour.I wonder if something is wrong because I have space in my day and time to think.I wonder what I need to take on to fill that gap.Self-doubt and the feelings that there is something wrong with me creep in.I feel guilty or almost at a loss after the end of a project.I feel lost and not as productive in this lull period.Does this resonate with you? I don’t think this is talked about enough. Here’s what I think this is. We are all so used to running on adrenaline, achieving, achieving, achieving. Hustling for our worth. Running so fast we don’t have time to think, let alone feel. Addicted to the sense of achievement we have by being the “go-to” gal at work, the one who gets things done, the person that leads the projects.And when things slow down, we feel uncomfortable. Because we have time to think. We don’t have adrenaline coursing through our veins. We have space to just be with ourselves, which let’s face it, can be scary if we haven’t tapped in and listened in a while.In this show, I review the steps I take to get more comfortable with the lulls or spaces in our professional and personal lives.