If you really took a look at your organization’s mission, you would probably find that enough urgent but not important tasks keep slipping into your days, then weeks, that you start to wonder what you actually have accomplished that month.
Is this because you are doing too much?
You will become overwhelmed and burned out if you continue at that pace.
We like to help and be super heroes but we can’t be effective if we spread ourselves too thin.
Carve out time to do the important – that which will move your organization’s mission forward. Carve out time to eat a healthy lunch, go for coffee with a colleague. You need to stay human while you do your human services work.
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So true, Roxy! I think no matter what we “do for a living” we could all use a little time out to take care of ourselves.
Thanks for the classic “less is more” lesson.