A few days ago, during a meeting, I came across a man who spoke and smiled eerily similarly to Doros, a dear family friend who was brutally beaten to death last January, in his attempt to defend a friend, who was bullied by her neighbours. The cruel way he died traumatised all of us and we still to this day find it hard to process.
Though I didn’t let it affect my work, I felt a bit sad and unease for the rest of the day.
I’m sharing this because it’s important to remember that no matter what we do, our personal lives affect our working ones (and vice versa of course) and that’s OK, as long as we recognise when that happens and why (self awareness is paramount) and we don’t take it out on others!
There might be days that we struggle and we take things easy, and others we push through to make it through the day, so always remind yourself that your employees, colleagues or boss quite often face the same emotional turmoil at any given day.
#work#mentalhealth#worklife#personallife
Lessons I learned after I turned 30 