Working while sick? Cut that crap out, go home and rest!
For years I would struggle and go to work sick and contagious because I needed to get the work done. My team needed me. The business needed me. They can't function without me. What I didn't realize is that when I'm not at my best, I can't be my best. Yeah, I got the work done or the webinar completed or the folks trained but they didn't get 100% Joyel, they got 50-65% at best. That's no bueno. Showing up while sick doesn't make you a hero. It fosters a lack of self care which (as I slowly learned) can lead to other deeper issues along the way. I developed larger health issues along the years that accumulated into some pretty scary stuff. It was my body's way of signaling me to slow the hell down! But I didn't listen until I was 4 meds in, 2 fibroid removal surgeries down and had a stress related cough that gave me a hernia to realize that working while ill is not the answer to a more productive life. I'm writing this note to all of