Shifting priorities

As much as I wish I could be sleeping 9 hours this week, it’s been really nice changing up my schedule completely. With our newborn, my schedule is no longer planned to a T on Sundays. I used to take an hour or two every Sunday to get caught up and plan for the upcoming weeks work.

Nowadays, my schedule basically revolves around Colin and when he decides he wants to sleep, eat, and poop. It’s pretty freeing and my anxiety level has gone down significantly. Of course, a lot of that is enabled because my team is absolutely awesome and has allowed me to go on a reduced schedule to make sure I have time for Colin and Sophia.

It’s no surprise that my priorities in life have shifted completely in the last 6 days. The most important thing in my life right now is making sure my son has an amazing life. Everything else is secondary. I still love my work and care deeply about Secfi and my coworkers, but “family comes first” takes a whole new meaning with a child.

I’ll be looking to get a couple hours of work done per day this week. Most of that will be spent on getting through emails and ensuring that my top 5 most important tasks get done. My teammates have been amazing and have been able to take care of everything else.

I suspect that I’ll spend most of November in this schedule with increasing time at work towards the end of the month. I’ll be back in December to help close out the year.