On this episode, I share with you how I had a revelation that the rest I was seeking was really crashing and how I plan to incorporate more restorative rest into my life.

I also tell you about my Small Wins for Big Results Coaching packages which will be available only in the month of March. Email me to schedule your three sessions.

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On today's episode, I throw away the script. Literally.

I'm changing the podcasts format to be more informal, more unscripted, more of just me talking to you.

And I tell you a little bit about my own recent "aha" moment.

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This episode is an encore of Episode #4: Tackling Burnout with Small Wins.

This is one of the shows most-downloaded episodes and it inspired me to create Small Wins for Big Results Coaching Packages to help you get a small win. Small wins are wins because they are effective. They help us to build momentum. They help us to build confidence. They help us to build belief in our ability to change, to do something different.

Let's get you your small win together. Email me to schedule your sessions.

I’d really like to “do life coaching” one day but I don’t really have time now.

I don’t really have the time and energy to dedicate to coaching long-term on this thing right now.

Working through this is going to be hard work, and I just don’t have it in me right now.

Maybe later…

Maybe when I get through this busy season at work.

Maybe after this next launch.

Maybe when my kid goes off to school.

Maybe after we’ve moved.

Maybe when I retire. 

But If I could just get *this one thing* figured out, it’d help so much…

Maybe it’s truly not the right time to embark on a coaching journey to tackle the big issues in your life.  

You only want to do coaching when you have the time and commitment to really get the most out of it.

But there’s this one thing that you would really like to put behind you, to make a decision about, to get some clarity around, to get started on.

You’re not ready for a longer-term commitment right now, but you still need a transformation now.

On this episode we’re going to talk about why working towards a Small Win might be the right strategy for you right now.  

I have a new program that I’m going to tell you about called Small Wins for Big Results, but you can also choose to approach a small win on your own and I’m going to tell you how. 

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“Do I actually need to rest or am I just letting myself off the hook?”  

I bet you've asked yourself this question.

Goodness knows that I have and my clients have, too.

High-achievers often worry that they are indulging their lazy side if they power down for a while.  They wonder if they are just kidding themselves, making excuses.  

I recorded this episode and aired it in place of another one to tell you in real time a bit about my own wrestling with whether it was time to press forward or time for some rest. 

What I didn't know was that I was well on my way to sick when I recorded this and you can totally tell in the video from the dark circles under my eyes.  It just goes to show how reticent we can be to trust ourselves even when our bodies are telling us they need a break.  

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Have you ever found yourself misunderstood in an email, perhaps someone misread what you said and has offered some small correction, and you find yourself emailing that person back and referring them to your original words earlier in the thread to be sure that they know that you were correct in the first place?  That you actually didn’t need correcting?  It might feel a little petty, but it feels more important than petty to you in that moment for them to know that you were, in fact, right. Right? 

Given how easy it is to misunderstand each other via email, why do we waste time doing this? Because we want to control how others see us.  We want them to think that we have exquisite attention to detail, flawless reasoning, and are always right.  

We might not put it quite that way, but our level of discomfort when they think we have a small detail wrong gives us away.  

We’ve been talking on the last few episodes of the podcast about burnout - how it keeps you stuck, what to do about it, and how it’s particularly fraught for people who are high performers and high achievers.  

A characteristic of many high achievers that likely contributes to the burnout that they experience is perfectionism.

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On today’s episode, we’re going to talk about the realities of burnout, especially for high-achievers and those who are passionate about their jobs.  And we’re doing this because we hold on to a misconception that hard workers just expect and know how to manage a level of work that “other people” might get into burnout from.  And we expect that people who love their jobs, believe that their jobs are important, or feel a sense of calling from them are somehow insulated against the deleterious effects of burnout.  

But, in fact, neither are true.  And high-achievers, who often get a lot of their self-worth and validation from their jobs, and people who believe that the work that they do is important and is aligned with their values can actually use these traits against themselves, unknowingly, and make their experience of burnout worse. 

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If you missed the free Create Your Own Plan to Tackle Burnout Webinar on Monday, January 23rd, sign up to receive the replay here.

On this episode, we are going to revisit cycles of stress and rest and talk about what this might look like if we explicitly take our nervous system states and completing our stress cycles into account.  

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Burnout got you down?

I'm offering a free webinar on Monday, January 23rd at 8pm ET to help you Create Your Own Plan to Tackle Burnout: Strategies for High Performers.

In this 90 minute session I will help you to identify your own signs and signals of burnout - you can't tackle a problem when you don't know it's there. We'll discuss how you can leverage the concept of Small Wins to avoid introducing more overwhelm into your system. And we'll discuss Things to Do, Things to Think, and Things to Practice to tackle burnout.

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On this episode, we are going to revisit cycles of stress and rest and talk about what to do when you can’t seem to escape the stress cycle to actually get the rest you need.  So many of us struggle with overwhelm and burnout and when those things are happening in our bodies, it’s next to impossible to cycle gently between stress and rest as we would like to in a healthy way.  But with awareness comes strategies and today we’ll talk about practical strategies to move you forward. 

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Shownotes & Worksheet

Burnout got you down?

I'm offering a free webinar on Monday, January 23rd at 8pm ET to help you Create Your Own Plan to Tackle Burnout: Strategies for High Performers.

In this 90 minute session I will help you to identify your own signs and signals of burnout - you can't tackle a problem when you don't know it's there. We'll discuss how you can leverage the concept of Small Wins to avoid introducing more overwhelm into your system. And we'll discuss Things to Do, Things to Think, and Things to Practice to tackle burnout.

Register here to attend live or to get the replay.

And if you lack the mental space to even think about making changes in your life, check out my other free resource for Creating Mental Space.

If you’d like to rate and review this or any other podcast, my step-by-step video will show you how.