Do you ever feel trapped, feeling like your work is taking over your life? This is such a common issue and so, if it sounds like you, please know, you are not alone! Today, I’d love to give you a few ideas for why this might be so.
• You say “YES” a bit too often
• You calendar is jam-packed with meetings and other professional arrangements, or with expectations and demands of others. There is not a single time slot for YOURSELF
• You are too busy to spend time thinking about what really matters; whether you are in the right job, whether the life you are leading is actually the life you want for yourself. In fact, you’re not even sure what it is that you want…
• You love being productive and marking things off your to-do list, the problem is that you are probably not prioritising the right things
• You don’t have many (any?) sources of joy outside of work, or your work has become your primarily (only?) source of joy
• You don’t even remember the last time you went to a museum, or took a pleasant, unhurried walk through the city, soaking up the atmosphere
• You consider activities that do not produce concrete tangible results stupid, unnecessary and unworthy of your time and effort
• You spend most of your time in your head, thinking, planning, ruminating…
• You have a tendency to suppress your feelings and just get on with it
• You believe that if you want to achieve career success, you have to sacrifice other aspects of your life
• Why get out and exercise, if you can chill out on the sofa and watch Netflix?
• You spend endless hours perfecting your work, whether it is working on your next presentation or a report
• You do not believe that the way you eat has any impact on your performance
• The masculine side of you is running the show most of the time, whilst the feminine side is dormant or actively suppressed…
Do you recognise any of this?
Please share and I’ll see if I can offer some tips.
Remember, there is always time to rectify and take steps to re-gain control of your work-life balance.
Take care,
Alena