When Do You Know You Are Doing Enough...
Christine (Chris) Panek, CPA
Leading The Movement To Support Accountants & High-Stress Professionals / Stress Reduction / Increased Productivity & Goal Achievement / Health, Happiness & Desired Lifestyle / RE*INVENTION? / Disrupting Industry Norms
Have you ever found yourself thinking that you are not doing enough, or do you consistently feel like you are behind? Do you have a list of things to do that never seems to get any shorter because you consistently have to add more to it every day?? Have you ever found yourself saying that you can never get enough done?
I hear this from the clients that I work with so often...so, I want to ask you, how do you know if you are doing enough?? If you are working 8 hours in your job, do you feel like you are doing enough?? What if you are working 10, 12, or even more hours each day?? Does this help you feel like you are doing enough?? Think about your busiest season.? Could you work 24 hours each day and still feel like you aren’t getting enough work done for the day?? If this is you, I want to tell you that working so many hours is not sustainable, and will probably take a toll on your health as well.
Is there a magic number of hours you need to work to feel like you’ve done enough?? Probably not.? The question of whether am I doing enough isn’t based on the amount of time spent on a project.
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When you are thinking about your professional life, what if I asked you right now…are you doing enough?? I’m guessing that most of you are going to say no, that you don’t feel like you are doing enough.? If you think back to yesterday, did you feel like you did enough?? As you are leaving your office today, do you feel like you’ve done enough?? Maybe you might not know exactly if you’ve done enough or not and that leaves you feeling unsure.? You might be hopeful that you did enough for the day, but then you look at your to-do list and think again.? I want to let you know that this isn’t unusual, and you are definitely not alone in thinking this way.?
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When you doubt yourself for not doing enough or are uncertain if you are doing enough, you’ll often find that the results you originally hoped would be achieved are not being obtained.? When this happens, you are probably overthinking, procrastinating, or even avoiding making decisions and taking action to move forward.
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When you tell yourself that you haven’t done enough, what other things are you telling yourself?? Do you start criticizing yourself?? Are you judging yourself?? When you do this, you'll more than likely start to believe what you are telling yourself and you'll actually start to become the person who procrastinates, overthinks, and doesn’t get enough done.? You become the reality of your original thought that you are not getting enough done.
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I help high-stress professionals learn how to decide when they are doing enough, how to ensure that they can get the things done they want to get done, and how to feel good about what they are doing. When you start doing this, you’ll start to trust yourself, know that you’ll get enough done every day, and feel confident when you are finished for the day…?? ??????
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