What do you do when you have so much on your plate that you cannot prioritize anymore?
Serena Martino
?? Executive & Leadership Coach (ICF) | Guiding High-Achievers to Sustainable Success and Personal Wellbeing| Boosting Team Performance & Results
I was recently working with a ambitious high-achiever woman. Let's call her Mary.
Mary was always very busy. Handling simultaneously clients projects, ramping up her business, taking care of the family and doing house chores as cherry on top.
She was sure she could do everything, and was trying to manage her time in the most efficient way possible to ensure she could still focus on all the different things.
But her business was not progressing as planned. She kept procrastinating and was not able to do as much as she wanted.?
? Days become weeks, weeks become months.?
The issue was not just the time - she said - it' that even when I have the time, I am the paralyzed with too many things on my head.
As we worked on planning how to make this works, one very obvious and important thing came out.?
On all the priorities she had in her calendar one big one was missing.
The most important one.?
HERSELF ??
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With the busyness and trying to do everything, she forgot and pushed away self-care till she had little time and no energy left.
So we made a simple deal.?
?? In the next 2 weeks she will not pick any other priority if she didn't have time for self-care planned for that day, and she had to honour that time.
It could be going for a walk, doing yoga, getting her nail done or reading a book quietly. She could do whatever she wanted for at least 40 minutes. This was her sacred time.
She went all in with it.
?? In the first 2 weeks she finally was able to get unstuck on what was helding her launch of a new product.?
?? 2 weeks later she was fully ready with a date and everything was falling into place.
Productivity is not about playing tetris with your calendar to squeeze everything in.?
Is ensuring that you use the time as effectively as possible so you can have time for yourself and your business without getting overwhelmed
What can you do to ensure you include yourself in your calendar?
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?? Executive & Leadership Coach (ICF) | Guiding High-Achievers to Sustainable Success and Personal Wellbeing| Boosting Team Performance & Results
2 年You cannot remove overwhelm if you do not make time for yourself every day. Things quickly change when you remember to put self-care first. What can you do to ensure you include yourself in your calendar?