Just another week. But was it really?

I survived. We got through it. Time to do it all again next week. They're the usual things you say to your team on a Friday arvo in the teams chat. And they're all relevant.

This week for me has been exciting, frustrating, inspiring, incredibly draining, motivating, infuriating and educational all at once. A fair mix of times where I thought 'actually, we're doing pretty well here' balanced with a healthy dose of 'how the you-know-what am I going to do this'. But that is the nature of what I do and if I'm being really honest (and you are too) that's every job in one way, shape or form.

The thing I try to remember is that if that is how I feel, it's probably how everyone else in my team feels. No matter how 'big or small' in the team the person is, everybody has the same feelings, thoughts, good days and ones where you just want to find a hole to crawl in to.

So while it almost reads as if I've had a truly cyclonic week, the truth is it's been a normal one and next week will probably be about the same. And I am OK with that. If I wasn't, that would be when the taboo topics like workplace stress, burnout, self love etc etc - al the glossy terms - would start creeping in. But I think acknowledging that everybody else probably feels the same way actually helps avoid that, or if it is in fact happening, it helps resolve it.

At work, everybody is unique but everybody is the same - all at once. Keep that in mind and things become a lot clearer. For me anyway.