If I hear — 11 hours ago

Caramba! — 1 day ago

(I felt like joining the cheerful choir)

This is super cool, well done!

Calls for a celebration this weekend, hurrah!

^{what is CAT btw?}

OMFG — 1 day ago

Who is this person?
Good news it’s a dead one

Wow — 1 day ago

pretty impressive stuff, well done you!

Untitled — 1 day ago

Well I have not seen anything truly inspiring in the career/job/professional key worded goals I’ve looked at

Well, I was not inspired in a positive way but it was useful in that I saw a few things that do not truly resonnate with me

e.g. success and performance and achievement – I’ve got nothing against these things but I by far prefer your idea of excellence (i don’t want the goal to sound like too much of a late capitalism inhumane unachievable goal either)

also excellence is different than perfection and it might be important given our common tendency to overdo things

I need to get back to work you know this thing the goal relates to ha ha ha but I’ll be sure to think about it over the weekend

Maybe we can come up with something next week and get started?

xx

Say goodbye to La Tordue — 1 day ago

Hey Miss Tordue — 1 day ago

Hey, you're good! — 1 day ago

Untitled — 1 day ago

Or maybe not, because it sounds like you’ve genuinely come a long way in terms of identifying and understanding a pattern you had.

I know just how hard it is to overturn a behavioural pattern – possibly because the pattern has a deep seated cause, somewhere, that this is often hard to address or even just to see how it’s linked to our daily life in the first place (probably my telling you this reflects the fact I’m in psycoanalysis therapy and I must say it’s very useful in that respect). But still I like to be hopefull because I do beleive that once we understand something we can act on it.

The thing is I find it’s often harder to understand than I would think.

I guess our professional lives are pretty complex and multifaceted as well. It sounds like you had a heavy load of responsibilities to handle as an integral part of your job. It’s funny how jobs come with such things that are not related to the actual job description, like having to be your own secretary (because the secretary’s job has evolved so much as well), or having to deal with people’s anxieties, or worrying about admin aspects when dealing with organisations that have heavy administrative structures…or whatever. It’s an integral part of our job and yet we were trained for the job, not for that, so it’s something we have to learn.

But you are right though, the most important part is knowing how to be a better friend to ourselves and not just a manager!

:D — 1 day ago

it’s not like I’m currently spending time looking at how I could phrase a job related goal on 43 instead of actually doing my job either