101 ways to burn out as a FTWM #Truestory
- Getting your little ones to wake up in the morning
- Getting your little ones to get in bed at night
- Getting your little ones to get out of bed in the morning
- Getting your little ones to fall asleep at night
- Getting yourself to fall asleep at night after a long day at work and still with 101 unfinished work that's urgent, important and due the day before yesterday
- Getting your little ones to change and get ready for school in the morning
- Getting yourself out of bed in the morning after an all nighter working on your MBP
- Getting your little ones to finish their breakfast and get their shoes on
- Getting your little ones to stop whining about not wanting to go to school while traveling to school
- Getting your little ones to enter the school gate every morning
- Getting out of the horrific traffic from Punggol into another horrific jam in the KPE just to get to office at 8am every morning
- Trying to avoid the horrific traffic while sneaking a quick breakfast within Punggol and later still getting stuck in the traffic towards office... OMFG!
- Going through the day's urgent, important and to do list and adding even more urgent, important and must-get-this-done-yesterday tasks into the list...
- Clicking through the 999 emails in the inbox and wishing to just check all and trash
- Getting through the day without lunch and being questioned by others why I don't go for lunch... cos I anti-social
- Answering to calls I shouldn't have picked up in the first place
- Picking up a call checking to see if I can make it to their event happening tomorrow with the invite sent 10 mins ago which drowned in the sea of 999 others...
- Getting the little ones to eat their dinner and to move their hands to feed and move their jaws to chew their food....
- Getting myself to eat dinner in peace
- Getting the little ones to do their homework...
- .... practice their spelling and chinese characters...
- Checking ClassDojo app for reminders from teachers in school...
- Checking the announcement apps for latest letter from school...
- Checking their communication book for any letters/ notes from teachers...
- Checking their other communication book for any notes/ messages from teachers... WTH?! Can't they just have ONE communication channel???
- Wait no toilet paper in the office already???
- Catching up with the little ones to see if they are doing alright in school...
- Listening to their very long and interesting yet comical stories of the day in the life as a P1 and K1...
- Explaining the concept of failing and learning to the little one....
- Learning how to better teach the little one how to overcome their fear and emotions...
- Learning how to more effectively get my own emotions and mental state settled for what's to come...
- Try not to make my problems other people's problem... Ending up taking on others problems making them mine...
- Thinking about the 101 ways to groom and grow an effective agency...
- Stopping myself from overthinking and overdoing...
- Learning to break big tasks to smaller ones....
- Understanding what exactly is that magic strategy the client keep asking even when we've presented to them the 101 strategies available...
- Fluffing cos clients prefers cotton candies instead of raw sugar.
- Thinking of ways to best engage the little ones over weekend so that I can sneak time to clear the 999 emails and 1001 to do lists...
- Battling with mother's guilt
- Bringing the little ones out alone and .... Mummy i want to go toilet... I need to go uh-uh.... i thiink i want to vomit.... Mummy I need to go toilet again.... repeats cycle every 20 mins...
- Getting call from school telling you your little one is down with fever....
- Getting another call from new lead for a proposal... knowing very well you're out of control by accepting to take it on... and you still did...
- Getting pinged from partner telling you there's another potential lead and you telling him no more... but still take it on... #sure.can.handle.lah
- Checking the growing to do list afraid I missed some others out...
- Shit I haven't submitted that urgent _____ to the government leh! Jia lat liao!...
- Getting your team at work to help clear my 1001 tasks for me and discovering I need to help them with their 101 tasks too....
- OMG.... Ok 101 ways is really over lah.... but I'm seriously just so so tired right now... instead of working on what i needed to, i choose to type this mind dump piece here because too long a rant for FB.
- Back to work... with my half closed eyes... wait... i really cannot do this right now.
KO.
