It's finally happened - it was destined to happen really and while it's been a good run up until this point I'm fucken done with it and it's time to say goodbye forever.
Yesterday my working year came to a conclusion for 2025 and to mark the occasion the organisation had a huge BBQ for everyone and at around lunch time people were permitted to go home...with a full day's pay of course. I stayed.
It's not because I'm a workaholic, I just had some things to do and I wanted to end the working year and walk away from it knowing I'd maximised my opportunities and left nothing on the table so to speak. I didn't stay long, only until about 3pm and was one of the last two to leave the facility.
I don't seek a work/life balance. I apply 100% of myself to work and 100% of myself to my personal life...just not at the same time. I have the ability to switch in an instant and be 100% not at work or 100% not in my personal life (If I'm at work.)
It means results gained in my professional life have been, and are, quite spectacular - exceeding expectations, my own and others, is what I seek to do. It also means what I gain in my personal life is also spectacular as I'm laser-focused on that...just like I'm laser focused right now on my personal life away from work now the working year is done.
I guess that's a balance of sorts, weighted the way it needs to be weighted at any given point, but it's sort of not balance either; I'm uncompromising and have the ability to switch focus instantly when needed but there's no balance involved with the 100% present ethos.
If I'm at work and my girlfriend calls me with something critically important I'm able to completely block out work and be 100% focused on her and the situation. If I can solve it or move it aside until later, I hang up the phone and am 100% focused on work again. It takes practice of course, but I learned that long ago in environments that were unforgiving to those who could not be 100% focused and present in the moment. I'm fortunate that my girlfriend knows when to call me and when not to when I'm working and it's only ever under dire circumstances that she will call.
Presence...it's so important. Being present in my personal life, 100% present, is what I and my girlfriend deserve and being 100% present when I'm at work is what my organisation deserves (and expects) considering how much they pay me. I'm ok with it.
Anyway, all that fucken 100% presence and focus I apply at work drains me and by the end of the year I'm fucken done! So, I'm now 100% present and focused on my time off and all the cool shit I'm going to do.
Goodbye 2025 work year, hello vacation! (Oh, and today's Saturday so hello weekend.)
What do you reckon? Comment below if you want to.
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