Grateful on another Monday
This was probably one of the weirdest weekends I’ve had in recent memory. The SVB explosion kicked off the weekend with a lot of fear and panic. That was not great for my anxiety levels. I had gone into the weekend thinking that something would be done by the Fed and luckily that was the outcome. I tried as hard as possible to keep calm all weekend, but admittedly it was difficult at times to get it out my head. I was nervously clutching my phone pretty much for the entire 48 hours.
What made it also weirder was that this was the weekend that I was celebrating my birthday so my brain was a bit conflicted. Sophia and I had dinner plans at Ken Sushi on Friday followed by a short celebration at Top Golf + dinner with friends. In a way, having all these distractions over the weekend helped keep my sanity by not focusing on the bad news. It was an incredible weekend and I do feel very fortunate.
At the same time, I do feel quite a bit of anxiety today given everything. Call it a case of the Mondays, anxiety from the bad news, and/or being tired from the day light savings time change. In light of not feeling my best, I figured I’d take the time to practice some gratitude and write down some things I’m grateful for today. It always does wonders in helping making me feel better.
So today, I am grateful for:
An amazing wife that planned an incredibly birthday celebration for myself. Dinner was something that I’m going to be dreaming about for awhile and Saturday’s festivities was exactly what I wanted to do for my birthday. I’m incredibly lucky.
Intelligent and talented coworkers who care about the company and our customers. Despite everything going on last week, our team stayed calm and acted quickly to get our employees and clients comfortable with what was happening.
Living and working in the U.S. Our gov’t and country isn’t perfect by any means and I have my fair share of complaints, but we are lucky to live in a country that can and has protected individuals and consumers. We could be in a much worse position if the Fed hadn’t stepped in. Many unfortunately do not have that privilege.