A destructive day trip to la la land ...

I have had a frantic, manic and panicky week, all thanks to one very unproductive Friday afternoon; well if I’m completely honest it was actually the whole day...

I am sure everyone can relate to the mind set I experienced on Friday (and the not-so-mild panicked week I dealt with as a result of it). It was one of those mornings that I swear someone had set an electric shock into my chair because no sooner was I sitting down at my little desk, trying very hard to mind my business, then I’d end up jumping up to deal with something or other that needed urgent attention. So by 12 o’clock my mind was programmed into a 5 minute attention span and I was feeling very ADD. I hate it when that happens. So I spent the rest of the day between various none work-related activities such as daydreaming, staring into space, having fascinating conversations with my colleagues, etc. Every now and again I’d try super hard to (re)motivate myself (but let’s face it guilt isn’t always a good motivator) but despite my best efforts my 5 minute attention spam lasted all day.

As a result of my ADD butterfly mood on Friday I officially had a workload that, if emails stacked up height-wise, would have been towering over me. Then Monday (and Tuesday and Wednesday and ironically enough today) I had that feeling of a hamster on a treadmill trying to reach the peanut just out of reach but just not getting any closer! You have to know the feeling, your workload is piling up, and every time you blink you have a new email which you KNOW is more work and then you start to feel that  panic creeping up your throat making you want to scream, jump and have an epic ‘throwing your toys out of the cot’ moment… and if you let up that death grip on your somewhat shaky self control, for even a split second, your little world will come tumbling down and that toy throwing fit will ensue... 

I’m feeling stressed and frayed around the edges just thinking about it! So head down and focus, I am still swimming against the tide of work after all, just because I couldn’t keep my head out of la la land for an afternoon *sigh I’ll always be a dreamer!