The return from Christmas vacation is very weird this year. Maybe it was the timing of Christmas and New Year's day but it feels like people are having trouble re-entering the routine.
As a consultant, this can be unnerving.
Dunn & Associates Communications and Public Affairs officially returned to work last week. I e-mailed some clients, did some edits, started some planning. But my messages sat....unanswered, my dutiful edits...not reviewed. I realized, there was no one at the other end to receive my missives. I was trying to kick start some work, but my team mates in the outside world were not ready to play.
Today is the first official work day back and now we will stand by while everyone reviews their e-mails, makes plans and prepares for the next onslaught of work. Some real work might happen by Wednesday, but in the meantime, we all hang on to the afterglow of the holidays and wait for the action to begin.
I notice my friends all posting motivational sayings and quotes online - emphasizing brand new starts, the endless possibilities a new year brings, to potential they hope to achieve. It occurs to me this is meant to shock us into action and optimism....and it works.
I hate to admit it but I want the work to get crazy. I want my schedule to fill up. I need my kids to start booking in birthdays and basketball games. It's the only way I know what to do with myself. This is kind of sick, I realize, but it also may be an indication that I've had enough holiday days.
Ready for my routine now.
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