10/23/2024

We Need to Talk about the Emotional Weight of Work

Tasks often get delayed due to the emotions connected to them

You can feel the muscles between your shoulder blades tense up and your stomach feels a bit queasy. Is that a headache coming on?

You know you really should do that task that's collecting cobwebs on your to-do list. It's important. It needs to happen. And it's not even that hard. But you find it emotionally exhausting to even think about getting it done. So you protrastinate and distract yourself, hoping that you'll have the courage to check it off the list someday—just not today.

Sound familiar?

Please select this link to read the complete article from Fast Company.