I'm Tired, But It's A Good HR Tired

In the year and a half since I jumped on the Social Media bandwagon, rarely a day would go by that I did not send out a tweet, recommend a blog post, comment on something somewhere in the etheral space. Plus I would beat on my brain to write, write, write for this blog.

I'm not complaining. It's been great and non problematic. However, there have been recent changes at my workplace that require a great deal of my attention. Hence, days go by without plugging in at all. I check my emails; I answer some folks that I think are in need of my attention. I tweet occasionally. I read some blog posts. I share some ideas.

Lately though, I've had to prioritize.
I like the Social Media stuff
... I like my job.
Social Media pays me in relatedness
... My job pays me in cash, status, and degrees of certainty and autonomy.
Social Media is fun, can sometimes be work, and sometimes tires my brain
... My job is always work, sometimes is fun, and lately always tires my brain.

But it's a good tired.

The workplace changes have included a new role for me ...
Where once I was effective adviser, I'm now an affective change-maker.
Where once I could only talk about leading practices, I'm now demonstrating the what, how and whys of them.
Where once I saw the right path, I'm now walking down it.

I have reached an exciting place in my career. I'm taking all of the advice I've written over the past eighteen months combined with the great content my fellow HR blogger/colleagues/friends have past down, and taking the reins of responsibility to put it all into action.

Let me ask you this...
How often are you having conversations at work changing someone's perspective toward the positive, revealing untapped potential, or making a connection that results in such a palpable feeling like electricity charging through your body?
I ask because this is happening to me EVERY SINGLE DAY in my new role.

Emotionally it feels great. Physiologically, I know it's just dopamine charging around my brain. I know with that high comes a physical exhaustion.

I also know eventually I will get the balance right again between my job and the other aspects of my life, and between my brain arousal and brain tiredness. Until then, I'm going to ride this wave and see where it takes me. I'm sure wherever it lands, I won't regret a thing.

Here's hoping you too are affecting positive change, spreading good vibrations and having a good HR tired.