How to NOT be Tired, Busy, and Overwhelmed

Are you feeling tired and that you can't work like you used to do when you were younger? 

There is a common problem that I hear from my clients. It’s an issue that affects female leaders, female business owners, and probably lots of men as well. ​

I was coaching with a group of clients in my She’s Goaled Program. We were reviewing how their goals went that month.

One of them said that she felt she wasn’t getting everything done because she wasn’t at her optimum level of health:

• She said she's tired
• She said she's got so much on the go
• She just doesn't have the energy to do it all

I'm guessing you've had those moments, too. Maybe even today! But the next thing she said was, “I have to remember what my age is and not work like I’m 20 years old again.” 
What it comes down to is how you want your lifestyle and your every day to look like. This is especially true if you're in control of your own time and is important even if you work a nine to five.

It’s not about age. It’s not about your life before kids. It's about how you want to live your life right now.

• How much do you want to work? 
• When do you want time off? 
• What do you want to do in your free time?

Answer these questions as the person you are, not even thinking about age. Think about what you want and what you want your life to look like.

If you're tired, try asking yourself: What’s the cause?

• Is it because you're working too much? 
• Is it because you've taken on too many responsibilities that it keeps you up late at night doing everything? 
• Are you tired because you're stressed with all the things you're doing?
• Do you want it to continue like that? 
• Does it mean you need to cut back on your work?
• Do you need to take time off?

I had one client who had so much vacation time banked at her company that she basically could take a whole year off! She was a great employee, but she was working herself into the ground. 
I asked her, “What do you want?” She said she just wants to work less. She was working 80 hours a week. She wants to have a bigger impact in the work she does, but she also needs to rest. She said she wants to be able to take her time off and doesn’t feel she can. 

She knew she needed to take it, but she worried. She felt like she couldn't have the same impact that she wanted to have if she was to take time off. Surprisingly, since she also worked so much she worried she wouldn’t know what to do with her free time.

If you run a business, maybe you think you can't have the results you want if you take some time off. I'm not saying take a whole month off, but if you want to that's totally doable because that's actually what this client of mine did. 

Not only that, but she continued to take every single August off moving forward. She also took a personal day every so often. It was a day for herself where she would just book a day off with no major plans and just wake up that day and think:

• What am I going to do today? 
• What am I going to experience today? 
• How am I going to use my time today?

If you're at a place where you're feeling like you don't like how things are, you can't handle what you used to handle, or you wish things were different, STOP. Take a moment. Really ask yourself:

• What is it that I want? 
• How much do I want to work? 
• How do I want to work? ​

It's not about comparing to how life was in the past. It's about getting super clear about how you want life to be right now. 

What do you want to accomplish, what goals do you want to have, and what priorities are in your life? Basically, it comes down to three words: Design your life. 

You can actually do that. A lot of times people just go with the default or they settle for what's happening in their life. Or they take options that are presented to them.

If you want to balance your life better then I’ve got you covered.

For the upcoming Black Friday, I’m offering the Ultimate Success Toolkit which contains tools that can help you reach your goals and surpass the feeling of being tired, busy, and overwhelmed! ​

Grab your toolkit here.

Read my other blogs here:
1. Stop Juggling everything! Tips to help you avoid overwhelm
2. How to Stop Feeling Tired: The ONE thing I do every year to run on full cylinders
3. Overwhelmed with Overwhelm