Comments on: If No One’s Reviewing My Work, How Do I Know I’m Doing It Right?

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 17 May 2011 20:58:53 +0000

This is very true. Sometimes we all get in this pattern. Luckily our friends are always there to slap us in the face

By: Meredith

Meredith — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:50:53 +0000

Jeepers. Way to get me choked up on the train. I know exactly how you feel. It’s amazing how much we juggle, how much we manage, how much we are responsible for, yet for some reason we always undercut our own performance. Maybe it’s because our little bosses are the most demanding, unrelenting task masters we’ve ever had. And they’re performance evaluations generally range from eye-rolling to “that’s the most disgusting meal I’ve ever seen.”

By: Laura Haskin

Laura Haskin — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:25:58 +0000

Thank you for putting this so eloquently. I empathize with your feelings. I need Russ to read this, because it puts into words how I have been feeling this maternity leave. I have been having the time of my life and am dreading going back to work, but being at home means that at least once per day, I feel like an absolute failure. There is no way to ace this one! and I am not used to that feeling either. Perfectionism is for the birds.

By: Suddenly Jamie

Suddenly Jamie — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:21:10 +0000

Love this one. So very true & so very honest.
No matter how much we talk ourselves into being “independent,” we still crave, on some very primal level, that pat on the back that assures us we’re doing a good job.

I suppose the trick is in learning to tell yourself how awesome you are … and then actually believing what you’re saying. It’s not easy. We discount our own opinions far more quickly than those of strangers. Weird, isn’t it, that we’ll take someone else’s word about whether we’ve “earned” happiness rather than feel it for ourselves?

Great post. Glad I caught it on Facebook!

By: Nica Waters

Nica Waters — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:42:17 +0000

You. Nailed. It.

Thanks.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:10:10 +0000

Swooper you are awesome!!! A great Mom with 2 great boys and one lucky husband. A great friend who helped me a lot in the short time I knew ya!! And a great everything else too!!! Well thats ‘supernannys’ opinion anyways!!!!

By: kim

kim — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:57:56 +0000

Oh boy, do I know where you’re coming from. It is impossible to feel like you’re doing well when you’re a mom. Something is always left unfinished, untouched, half-assed b/c there are too many little things that take priority. I’m guilty of not feeling like I do the “mom gig” well enough too.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:57:18 +0000

Enlightening insight. I think many of us are feeling similarly. I know I am!