How to do your best work when you're sick

Gotcha! You can't do your best work when you're sick. In fact, if you try to do any kind of work, the quality of that work will suffer and your illness will just be prolonged.

So do like I'm doing today and focus on getting better. Until you're back on your feet, your job is to get well. That's what needs your focus and your best efforts.

I'll see you again on Thursday... provided I feel better. Please take care of yourselves; this flu season is gonna be a doozy!

Comments

[Liz]

Cath-

Take good care of yourself!

[Catherine Cantieri]

Thanks, Liz! I'm feeling a bit better (fever's gone, at any rate), so there will probably be a post on Thursday.

[Walter]

Oftentimes, when we are working on something important, lying in sickness is not an option. I have this kind of attitude, but there comes a point when I realized that I'm not making a good output.

So I agree with what you have stated here. We must first focus on getting well. :-)

[Catherine Cantieri]

Glad to hear it, Walter. :-)

I know, it's so easy to get caught up in what we believe we have to do, even when our bodies are yelling at us to knock it off and get some sleep. But as you've noted, at some point you enter the zone of steeply diminishing returns. Hope you've made it through the cold & flu season okay so far.