Dying A Slow Death At The Withered Hands Of Overwhelm? Ask Yourself This Question.

Take a peek inside my brain.

How do bees fly with those tiny wings?

Is 3pm too late for a coffee?

Will John Dutton survive? Who will run the Yellowstone if he doesn’t?

These are just some of the non critical questions I am asking myself daily.

But I’m a loose unit and most definitely do not operate like a ‘normal’ person.

But when I am acting ‘normal’ (ie. like running a successful business and managing the talented humans within it, while also raising a tiny human), there is a question I DO ask myself to keep myself from feeling the unrelenting pressure this wacky, wild life brings.

You ready? It’s this:

But does it really matter?

Obviously, there are lots of things that seem like a good idea, or appear like they’ll make our life easier if we do them NOW.

But ‘seem’ and ‘appear’ are two words that you need to wary of.

Because, unlike death and taxes, they aren’t sure things.

We’ve all spent time spinning our wheels and going nowhere, right?

Have you ever found yourself posting to Instagram, while trying to launch a website, and accepting the invite to host a friends baby shower, while also fostering a kitten and painting your room?

It’s scary how many of us load up our life plates like it’s some sort of all-you-eat-dessert-buffet.

Juggling too many things at one time is never a sure fire way to live your best, most productive life, and filling your time with tasks that are simply not going to get you closer to your goals will only serve to leave you in a corner rocking back and forth without achieving much at all.

That’s why clear goals are important.

It’s the only way you can really make sense of what you need to do today.

Think critically about everything.

Determine your path based on what you really want from this life.

Make your voice loudest in the room.

Just because everyone else is doing it, does not mean that you should.

Personally, I need constant reminding to stop and reassess the value of everything I do.

I am guilty as hell of taking on too much, forgoing my boundaries in order to make someone else’s life easier… while in turn making mine more difficult, and letting the feeling overwhelm consume me from the inside out.

And more often than not, the things I’m being asked to do are fucking pointless.

Time management for me is critical to my overall happiness meter, and by default, my success in business.

Red tape, meetings for meetings sake and toxic communication are three things that are like poison to me (and I’m assuming to you, too).

I question myself regularly and ask that all important question of, ‘but does it matter?’ all the time. It’s the only way I can be a good mother, run a business, manage a team and write.

Remaining a people pleaser was not an option for me.

My most intelligent brain cells are better served towards doing something that will have a lasting impact on my life.

So… what are you going to do with yours?