Letting Go

This probably seems like an odd topic when a lot of us are struggling with doing the job of 3 people. But letting go when some help finally arrives can be a difficult thing.

I say this because our office is expanding and many desperately needed position are getting filled. D.W. no longer finds she has to work 60-plus hours a week to stay above water. I actually see my co-workers getting office time, instead of constantly running from meeting to meeting to cover everything around campus. We're able to touch base and communicate better, in many ways.

But beneath all this, there's the difficulty in letting go. You know, when you are doing 50 million things, it makes you feel good and important because people need you. Take some of those things away, and well ... you could feel a bit less valuable around the office.

It's also frustrating because you can feel out of the loop. Projects you nurtured and grew are suddenly someone else's concern. You get updates here and there, but it's not the same. Or maybe you hear about things weeks later secondhand, when you used to be right there in the middle of the action.

I say all this because my co-worker and I were having an IM conversation about our office: how we feel out of the loop on some of the major projects. But then we realized, the reason we feel out of it is because we were doing too much to begin with. We shouldn't have been worrying about all those things in the first place -- it was too much for one or two people to take on.

Letting go can be difficult at first, but man, does it feel good some days not to have to worry about certain things again. It also feels good to actually leave at 5, instead of 7 pm.