Keep Calm And Carry On

Admittedly, even when you have an interesting project, there are some really stressful moments. Moments when the scope of the project seems to suddenly explode beyond the hours in the day you need to complete your work (or beyond the hours in the day where you enjoy completing your work.) That's often the nature of consulting services. Because you are creating a SERVICE and not a product - or let's say a STRATEGY and not a product (As in software product) - there is certainly room for interpretation. And what one person thinks is a bullet point or a few bullet points in a document, another person can consider an entire chapter. Anyway, point made. So as we REALLY and TRULY come to the end of this phase of our project, there is some stress - although nothing compared to the beginning of the project, when we were busy trying to figure out how to work together constructively.

To cope with it, you can find all sorts of little helping tools all over our work area: piles of fresh fruit and bottles of water, magazines and books for inspiration, smiley faces scribbled on white boards, and...my colleague Britta ordered a cloth poster to hang on the wall. :-)

...2 hours later.....

And then there are the colleagues who adapt your message for their own needs and purposes. Thankfully not on our project...Thomas just posted this in response to my entry...:-P