Sick Day or Mental Health Day?

byLeslierenee

138 followers

7 years ago

I gotta hand it to you, as entrepreneurs, sometines it seems like it would be easier to have a job with PTO available to just call in sick or take a mental health day.

Let me explain a bit. Today was just one of those days. No matter how hard I tried, things just weren't falling into place. In my head, I had created my schedule. Get up, do my morning routine, get some training done at WA, feel like I got stuff accomplished, cook dinner.

I woke up tired. Ok, since i create my schedule, I can sleep a little longer. I get woken up by telemarketing phone call because I forgot to put my phone on silent. Ok, time to get up anyway.

Got dressed, my zipper split on my zip-up hoodie. No big deal, put on another sweater.

Go make breakfast, get blueberry juice all over sweater, coffee spills all over the counter. Clean coffee up,, put on different sweater.

I won't go on with the details, but the rest of the day seemed to continue that way. Then I realized... Wow, if all of this would have happened at my job, or before the day started, I might have just called it a day and left work early, encouraging myself to take a mental health/sick day.

Sometimes it's important for us to remind ourselves that it's ok to sometimes just be done for the day, instead of pushing ourselves beyond our physical capabilities. Go ahead, take that sick day. Go watch a movie, let the brain relax.

Then come back tomorrow, and make it a better day.