Ok ok ok.
It’s been a minute since I’ve posted here but the truth is I just got really busy with client work and a bit of travel. And sometimes, that’s just how it goes. Sometimes we just have to let one of the spinning plates drop in order to keep the others moving.
As women, we know what it means to multitask, and we also know that when we are dividing our brain into more than one task at a time nothing is getting done the way we normally would do it. But.. .sometimes done is better than perfect.
There were years when I’d pick up from carpool and be on a conference call. Kids knew to be quiet when they got in the car. Was that fair that they couldn’t get in and dump everything that happened that day on me? Probably not. There were years when I had a Thursday networking meeting (BNI anyone?) and if the kids were out of school, they came with me (and the waiters would bring them Sprite). There have been times that a game or a meet was moved due to weather so the meeting I agreed to last week… I could no longer make it. There were out-of-office days for field trips, drives to camp and college move-in. There were babysitters I depended on.
Today, it’s different. Empty nesting lends itself to a bit more freedom in my schedule, Today I’m dependent on the dog sitters when we travel. And I can block time on my calendar to dig in and get work down for hours at a time (I think yesterday I sat here for six hours and cranked out content (one client is scheduled through April thank you very much). Texts and calls come in throughout the day from one who needs a Netflix code and one who wants something proofed on a cover letter plus a traveling husband who gives me play-by-play minutiae of delays and inconveniences, plus texts from my parents, my co-workers, clients and all the many whatsapp groups I’m in (war news, Mah Jong scheduling, mom group texts).
So the multitasking goes on. And while I don’t want to generalize and say that men don’t have to do this… seriously. Men don’t have to do this. When my husband is at work, he’s at work. And that doesn’t mean he ignores the rest of us all day, but it does mean he’s focused pretty much solely on work during work time. Women practice more work/life integration as Kate Latts, Co-president of Heaven Hill Brands, said on our podcast.
So here’s to the women. Those in an office and those at home. Those focused on one thing and those doing what seems like a million. Here’s to all who came before us and all who will come after us. Here’s to us just getting shit done the best we possibly can.
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