Work-From-Home Diary: A Year Reflection
It’s been a long journey with almost zero reflection of what happened in the last couple years since we are all trying to survive from the COVID-19 strikes.
I am no longer concerned with my personal goals, I was too stressed playing safe with my never ending work from home. Until I realized, it’s almost the end of the year. (Again)
Looking back to the first month of 2021, I had a bunch of list to achieve from 2020. I did not nailed some of it, but still I need to enjoy the process. To be grateful and thankful, I have to do self-reflection understanding the thing I nailed so far.
🌷 What did you love?
One thing I can highlight is the unimportant important of learning in public a.k.a ‘show off’ skills and things we are proud of. Back then, I wasn’t a fan of it because I was close-minded to think that: no one really gets anything from it.
There might be one or two people that enjoy and follow the journey you were posting, but the others might have just skipped it. Not all people are great with online journaling. Especially if you are not an influencer or have a good understanding of ‘marketing’ yourself up.
Work from home has its benefit like you would non-stop staring at your electronics device. For me personally, most of my spare times are scrolling on Twitter. Lots of useful and funny threads fulfill my days like I finally am eye-opening my point of view about learning in public.
There are two things I understand about learning in public:
- You are making a (public) commitment by posting it online, so you have like some kind of history of your journey. Just like git commit!
- You are motivating other people to learn in public as well.
Which both are a great advantage for me. You might get embarassed and felt stupid along the way if what you posted contains false information, but you are not a fraud. You are just learning.. and you get experience just by solo learning. It forces you to keep going when you might otherwise have given up on yourself.
People might came across your post and they might learned from your post, or they already understand the subject you are learning and give you feedback. Yay! You got free feedback just by posting it online. No harms, right?
It’s just so hard to do it at the first time and believe me I’m still collecting my spirit as well to do this.
✂️ What would you leave out?
Overthinking. It’s the one thing I’m trying to heal from. Really destructive. It leads to burnout from work. And it’s not that I want it to be happened that way to have no energy to be productive.
“It’s not that hard.”
They said. But it turns out to be the hardest thing to avoid even when you are alone it gets worse. For now, I overcome it by cleaning my room/re-arrange my drawers and chit-chat with my kid (cat). And try to finish the work early in the end of the week so I can chill and rest my burned head for the weekend.
Inspired by this article. Alice Coleman wrote a good method called ‘Garden of Life’ to reflect a year back and a year ahead; for those who are new to the art of reflection.
