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Juggling endless demands while also striving to improve our wellbeing is a recipe for overwhelm. We know what we need to do to stay healthy, but we just don’t have the time or energy to make it happen. That’s when burnout sets in.
And it won’t be solved by more wellbeing activities. Instead, we need to change the way we think about our work and how we approach priorities, to focus on what truly matters, and to sett boundaries. When we do that, we can reclaim our energy and start to thrive both in work and life.
Adding more out-of-hours webinars won’t solve this, and those initiatives risk keeping people stuck in a cycle of stress and exhaustion, because there’s never the time to implement the things they suggest.
Instead, we need to look at our to-do lists and decide what’s truly important. Choose one thing to prioritise today and let go of something that isn’t essential. Practice saying no to tasks that don’t align with your priorities. Small steps like this can help you get closer to your one wild and precious life.
Show links
More episodes of You Are Not a Frog:
- How to Set a Boundary No-one Can Break – Episode 220
- How to Catch Stress Early Before You Spiral into Burnout – Episode 249
- Life’s Too Short NOT to Love What You Do – Episode 209, with Dr Sarah Goulding
Reasons to listen
- To understand why wellbeing interventions alone won’t improve overall satisfaction and productivity at work
- To learn how prioritisation and boundary-setting can lead to better performance and a manageable workload
- For the mindset shift that can help you achieve your wild and precious life, even in high-pressure environments
Episode highlights
A wild and precious life
When you don’t have time for wellbeing
Start saying “no”
Why traditinoal wellbeing support doesn’t work
What can we do about it?
The performance pressure curve
What are you in control of?
Prioritise powerfully
The skill to say “no”
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Episode transcript
[00:00:00] Rachel: I want to talk to you today about the trouble with wellbeing and why I don’t think we should focus on wellbeing as our [00:00:06] Rachel: goal. [00:00:08] Rachel: This is a You Are Not a Frog quick dip, a tiny taster of the kinds of things we talk about on our full podcast episodes. I’ve chosen today’s topic to give you a helpful boost in the time it takes to have a cup of tea so you can return to whatever else you’re up to feeling energized and inspired. For more tools, tips, and insights to help…
