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“You burn too bright, you know you'll never last” -Halfway Right by Linkin Park

Today’s stoic reminds me of the Linkin Park lyric above. One of the great things about work is that they only want you to put in 40 hours a week. We’re not expected to do 50+ hours. I often do go over the 40 though and that’s with constant work. One of the things I’ve instituted for my teams is to spend 20% of their time doing a person project. That’s one day a week for them to work on something they’re really interested in.

When I was struggling with work, I got away from that. My personal project is around security awareness training at work. I like to do lunch and learns and speak out our company town halls. My presentation style is usually with lots of memes and other visuals. Putting together a presentation like that can take some time. It’s time well spent though especially because it can get me out of the day-to-day rush of getting things done. I’ve also recently started getting back into talking walks during my lunch break. This is an opportunity to get out of the office and allow my brain to breath a little more.