I GET IT, YOU ARE DONE WITH THE PANDEMIC! by Elizabeth Spencer MOM T THE RESCUE O h sweetie, I know. I know. I see it in your social media posts. I read it in your emoji-less texts. I hear it in your voice when I ask if I can get you anything, and you answer, “Yeah, some motivation.”
LOOK FORWARD. While you’re staring down these last few weeks, let your mental gaze drift once in a while to all the things you’re looking forward to doing (or not doing) when you get a break. And while you’re at it, keep your sights on the even bigger picture: the job you might land someday, the work you might do, the career you might build, the life you might have. Right now, day by day and piece by piece, you’re making a future dream come true. TAKE A WALK. OR A NAP. OR A SHOWER. OR A YOGA CLASS. Your body feeds your brain, so feed your body some rest or fresh air or a breather, and your brain will probably be a lot more supportive and a lot less likely to tell you, “Oh, what’s the point? Just quit!”
CHOCOLATE AS ART.
I get it. You are done. DONE. You are over this pandemic, over doing school in a pandemic, over your workload that’s gotten heavier in a pandemic, over all the work of school with almost none of the fun of it. Except the semester isn’t quite over and so you can’t quite be done. Well, of course, you can be. But you don’t really want to be. I’m not going to tell you to “hang in there,” because I already know you’re hanging by one of the threads of your university-logo hoodie. But I would tell you this... KEEP YOUR EYE ON WHAT YOU REALLY WANT. I know you want to be done, but what you really want is to be done and to be satisfied and content. You want to feel like you haven’t quit but completed. So, sprint across the finish line (or at least hobble), and then rest in the satisfaction of knowing you ran the whole race. LOOK BACK. Look at all you’ve already accom- plished. Look at all the work you’ve already done. Look at all the times you fought yourself to do what you didn’t want to do. Don’t cancel all that out by giving up now. You might not be able to completely control the outcome of this semester, but you can still control your input.
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MARCH 2021 • SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS MAGAZINE
SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS MAGAZINE • MARCH 2021
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