Day 4: in fairness to the Pope

Day 4: In fairness to the Pope

I feel I should comment that now I have read the fuller text of what Pope Francis said he is promoting a rather more active view of overcoming indifference than being reflective. And I will think about that (whoops – unintentional irony there)

i guess the tricky thing for most of us who work, and are still pulling double shift with family is that there are a lot of people telling us what we should be doing as well but no-one seems to say “it’s OK – spend the weekend blobbing out with a good book”

It happens at work too – no matter how much we know that what we do could be done better if we took some time to stop, research and reflect, we get caught up in the pressure of the urgent, whether it is billable hours or a policy deadline. The last couple of days I have heard myself talking about a new technology my current company is selling in Japan and America, that has amazing possibilities in New Zealand. But unless we have a buyer we can’t on-shore it and without on-shoring it, we can’t find a buyer.

And as a consequence we frequently deal with a degree of imposter syndrome because we haven’t had the time to fully understand what we are doing and how things work.