Had a very interesting chat with my line manager today which has put me in a reflective mood.
I've been very pessimistic about work lately (redundancies, stagnant working practices), but this made me feel more positive about the future if only I can act on it. I am, though I wish it wasn’t so, a glass-half-empty kind of person. I know that it often makes me unable to see the wood for the trees, but I don’t seem to be able to stop myself.
My manager pointed out today however that I’m actually in one of the best positions in the office right now if I could just see it. I have the scope to be creative, to work in both the major press and across the marketing spectrum instead of production-lining ministers’ requests.
I had known this before, but I seemed to have forgotten it or something, and I don’t want to forget it again.
So how do I give myself a sunnier outlook, and how do I stop myself thinking about tomorrow’s deadline and start thinking longer term about what we need to achieve? Even now I’m procrastinating from my real work by writing this, what an idiot!
I need to start looking up training and generally start remembering that I have a great opportunity here and not to let it pass under my nose.
Need to stop living from one moment to the next and start being strategic. Sounds hard.
K. Back to work.
