Great Fridays

Sometimes, when you're feeling drained by your job and the boss tells you it's going to get worse – much worse – over the next 2-3 months, you need a day chock-full of personal victories. Yesterday was one such day for me and it couldn't have come at a better, more unexpected time (think about it – long week, working the late shift to start the weekend, feeling overrun and wanting to coast on into Saturday). Because the nature of my job prevents me from getting specific, suffice it to say that I was able to overcome something that had been dogging me for the past week, while at the same time catching up on a bunch of tasks that had piled up and setting my team up for a much less stressful week next week. And I can't forget the most gratifying part of all – when the source of the task that had been dogging me went out of his way to credit me for keeping my word and behaving in a professional, competent manner while doing so. I think that energized every nerve of integrity in my body and it served as validation for the way I approach my work. That things kept going so well was hard to believe – it was like a non-stop rush of positive energy that I couldn't control. I'm invigorated, and very thankful that this happened when it did.