We were chatting as a group of friends always do, discussing the wonders of life and the highs and lows that come with it. As a collective group, we all weren't really enjoying our work. We were all doing well in our roles, delivering quality to the businesses we worked in - but we still felt something was missing and the less enjoyable days felt more enhanced than they probably were.
We discussed the good and bad days - when we had a bad day, we started to think back to the last bad day each of us had, when was it? How long ago? How did we feel then? Despite these feelings some of us couldn't actually really remember when it was. We started to think, how did we feel last week? Last month? This time last year? We could maybe remember specific more memorable days, but day to day we just couldn't remember, and we know most, if not all of us would be the same.
We thought to ourselves, it would be great to somehow document and track how we felt daily so we could get an overall understanding of how we were feeling and why.
So, we decided captured this via an excel spreadsheet and rated our days 'very bad/bad/ok/good/very good' and using formulas added up the number of each over a period of about 3 months.
When we got to the end of our time tracking this, we actually realised things were mainly 'ok' or 'good' amongst us all - and it gave us a real sense of calibration and understanding of how we were consistently feeling and not just snap shots of more memorable bad days. Things weren't actually as bad as we all thought which was massively interesting insights.
We all thought this is a great idea for an application for everyone – individuals to understand how they really feel each day, document it so they can reflect back on the past week, last month, the start of the year, anytime really. We started to think broader and how this could be used to implement into businesses, used in personal 121's, leaders could understand how their staff are really feeling and how the business could help them. And also used on a personal level outside of work. We felt we were onto something…
How did you feel last Tuesday? What about this day last month? What about this day last year? You likely won't remember. Be great if you could though, right?
We bring you ffeeling.