This morning I was looking at my planner and checking off things I had done. I find it helpful to schedule everything, sometimes even meals and breaks, because I will either “break” all day or work all day. I don’t always write down times, it’s more like a to do list. It works for me. Anyway, I was checking things off and something seemed wrong but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Was I forgetting something? Did I need to get something canceled? Something paid? Did I have to be somewhere? Ha no. Hmmm what a pickle. Then it hit me. Today is Wednesday, and all my notes were on Thursday.
I had a good laugh about it and then thought about how weird time is now. I’ve been working remotely for a long time but my schedule has always had a couple of “anchors”. They might be meetings or a particular workout class, or some task I have to do on the same day every week. This pandemic has changed so much. Most of those anchors have been canceled and even for a veteran work from home person like me it’s gotten a little disorienting. I could spend some time giving you advice on how to manage your schedule and know what day it is but you’ve all probably figured that out for yourselves. Instead, I’m going to say, don’t stress too much about it. Especially if your current state doesn’t require you to know exactly what day it is. If you are someone who has big meetings and presentations regularly, that’s different. If the worst thing that’s going to happen though, is that you’re late to a weekly call or do the wrong to do list, let it go. In times like these, some things have to give. The urge to maintain as much normalcy as possible is strong but you will feel much better if you can go with the flow instead of trying to fight the tides. You’ll be OK.
Posting this on Wednesday too since I thought it was Thursday!
