You have to know when you’re approaching your limit. Before you get to that, you have to be able to say no to new things or scale back ongoing things so you aren’t working past your limit.
As an example, right now with work I’m juggling 3 main things. Working on research for an upcoming project. A project working on some information collecting, surveying and assessments of those results. And some review of business development documents. I’m close to my limit. I have time for them all, but just barely enough. I know my priority right now are the first two. I have already started scaling back on business development reviews. I was doing these as a favor to lend a hand and the other two things are more important.
I already know if I get asked to do more business development review work, I will say no and decline. I won’t feel bad. I’m certain I won’t get in trouble. I can set the boundaries that I have other important priorities right now. So while I know there’s a lot going on and I sense my limit getting close, I have to protect myself from doing too much that will stress me out and burn me out.
Learn when to say no.
You have to know when you’re approaching your limit. Before you get to that, you have to be able to say no to new things or scale back ongoing things so you aren’t working past your limit.
As an example, right now with work I’m juggling 3 main things. Working on research for an upcoming project. A project working on some information collecting, surveying and assessments of those results. And some review of business development documents. I’m close to my limit. I have time for them all, but just barely enough. I know my priority right now are the first two. I have already started scaling back on business development reviews. I was doing these as a favor to lend a hand and the other two things are more important.
I already know if I get asked to do more business development review work, I will say no and decline. I won’t feel bad. I’m certain I won’t get in trouble. I can set the boundaries that I have other important priorities right now. So while I know there’s a lot going on and I sense my limit getting close, I have to protect myself from doing too much that will stress me out and burn me out.