Time and Anxiety

I'm Helen and I support you to rapidly remove burnout, overwhelm and anxiety using my eight-step method to restore time, productivity, and wellbeing for your precious work life balance.

So today two things came out of my recent podcast,

on Podbean, those themes were time and anxiety.

So how do we get back more time or gain more time? Here's some questions to throwback to you. Why do you think you don't have enough time? What are you trying to do in the time you do have and are you wasting your time on things you don't need to?

We all think we need to be busy like saying we're so busy is a badge of honour. We need to gain it, or it makes us look good, why is that.

Some tips to help you start off looking at your time management. Write down what you do in your day usually, follow that with writing down what you have done today and how long it took you. Are you spending a long time on something as you are getting distracted by other tasks you are thinking about, or other things instead?

Are you procrastinating over it? Is there an underlying reason why that takes so long?

Scrolling - we all love to scroll it settles our FOMO! We can see what others are doing but does that serve us, do you then think they are doing so much and I'm not. Write your to do list, prioritise it, do the things that serve you and work for you.

Time blocking is good to just focus on one thing and put all distraction aside, just do it!

If you don't reply to that customer email as soon as it comes in is that really a bad thing? Are you setting an expectation for them that you will always be able to answer straight away? Set your boundaries, if it waits an hour is it really going to matter.

This also leads on to anxiety. We can all have anxiety but some of us it affects more than others we can get in that cycle and can't step off.

As an example, you've had a long day and as you walked past the biscuit tin your think, “I'll just have one” once you've eaten it you think why did I eat that. I shouldn't have eaten it, that's not helping me, you get cross and angry with yourself.

This leads to thinking well I've eaten one why not more it's not going to make a difference now. I've had a long day and I need to pick me up and then you go round again, trigger, action, berate, excuse and so forth.

This can happen in anything we do; how do we step off that wheel. It is about recognising it and having the right tools to deal with it.

Anxiety can be hard, and it shows itself in many ways across our emotional health. Which is mentally, physically, and in our immune systems.

We can all produce unwanted thoughts and behaviours; you can step off that wheel and transform it.

To find out more or book your free one to one discovery call with me you can find me on LinkedIn, Facebook, or via my website ww.heavenlstevens.com