YEAR OF ZEN: SUMMER: DAY 24

The Bearers of the Burden - Vincent van Gogh

Q: What burden are you carrying at work that you might set down, even if for just a little while?

A: I have done a pretty good job recently of lining up a manageable number of projects that I can actively move between and make real progress on. The biggest burdens I carry at work come in the difficult, but highly rewarding, areas of management and collaboration. I often gets things wrong and when I do it feels like a burden that I want to be done with. And then some things go right and it completely reinvigorates me to come back and try again.