All tagged learning and development
Many wear a badge of honor touting "busyness" as a metaphor for producing copious amounts of work, regardless of the quality. The busier you are, the better you are. Sort of like the notion bigger is better (which we all know is not always the case).
I get it. I'm guilty too. I sit in my office until the sun goes down hoping to feel that sense of being "all caught up", but it never quite happens. Because as soon as you zero out that inbox, if that is your measure of choice here, another email buzz's in.
Holiday time/ the end of the year can be STRESSFUL. Whether it is thinking of the perfect gift, finding the money to buy said perfect gift, figuring out how to exist within a family who may judge or not support you, facing your first holiday after losing a parent, cramming for finals or final papers, trying to scrape enough money together to pay for a flight home, or dreading the politics conversations that inevitably will happen over the holiday dinner table, that stress is real, even for the happiest of people.