It has been an eternity since I posted anything on here. It makes me feel quite guilty really. I’ve been having a bit of break from the whole blogging/twitter thing as I was starting to feel a bit bogged down by this chartership malarkey.
For the first few months of this year, I felt that I was simply bouncing from fulfilling one PDP objective to another without actually enjoying what I was doing much of the time. My work-life balance was becoming hideously unbalanced. Every time I read my Twitter or rss feeds, someone was writing about what fabulous exciting stuff they had been working on & that was just making me feel worse about not getting down to finishing off my portfolio. So, I took a deep breath and stepped off the roundabout for a while.
I think the break has helped me to put certain things into perspective. I’m never going to be one of the movers & shakers who pops up at every conference or webchat and the pressure (self-imposed, it has to be said) to try & be like that has lifted. It’s not because I don’t think I’m capable of such things; they’re just not my priority.
So what is my priority? My family. Every. Single. Time. So, I won’t be rushing through bedtime stories trying to catch the end of a tweetchat, I won’t be bobbing around the country trying to network at conferences, I won’t worry that my chartership portfolio is well short of completion.
Got to go – that Lego won’t build itself. I’ll leave you with this thought.
librarian with a laptop 