Be Gentle with Yourself: A “Hard Charger’s” Guide
Self-compassion builds empathy
2020 was hard. Personally, professionally, socially and culturally we were put through the wringer and hung to dry.
It was hard on our health, it was hard on our psychology, it was plain hard. And 2021 has not started much better.
2020 Taught us that your career does not exist in isolation
This period has helped us realize how greatly our career and our work life is affected by our context. It’s affected by our health and mental well-being. It’s affected by social turmoil. Our environment weighs on our interactions every single day. Your career is no longer just dependent on the economy, and your certifications. The realization is that we are whole people both in and outside of work. And you cannot isolate one area of your life and pretend that it doesn’t impact the rest of it.
To get through it I’ve needed to learn to be gentle with myself.
And this is something that I’m not good at all. I am a type-A “achiever”. I work very hard and I expect only the very best from my performance at all times. And my standards for myself are higher than anyone else’s standards for me.
