In today´s episode of 'Professional Success Podcast' your host Sheila shares few tips on how to overcome toxic productivity. She talks about the challenge and the balancing act called productivity which is specifically also known as toxic productivity these days.
Episode Highlights:
- Today Sheila is talking about something that she is struggling with right alongside so many other people.
- Toxic productivity is the inability to stop doing or producing, even when the need for an outcome has somewhat gone away.
- Your signals before slipping into toxic productivity might be different, but that way you'll know that there's some opportunity to shift perspective or think about things a little bit differently.
- As Sheila she sets her top three priorities for the day, these priorities might be work related but they could also include personal things or things related to her family.
- Consider using a timer on your phone & watch that is set to take three one minute breathing breaks.
- Sheila is getting better every single day and that is exactly what she wishes for the listeners!
3 Key Points:
- Sheila definitely speaks from her own experience here because she has encountered this idea of toxic productivity. This is something that personally resonates with her, so her goal today is to share some actual insights that she's researched over the last few months. She has implemented some and found that they work tremendously well for her as well as for some of her clients.
- There are some signs that indicate we're infringing on this territory of toxic productivity. From that slope of productive and toxically productive, it can be really slippery and it can look a little bit different for each of us.
- Overcoming toxic productivity can be pretty simple. The first one is Sheila sets her top three priorities, daily. Second thing that she does is that very conscientiously she links to her what's and why's. Number three, she takes little breather breaks during the day. The last one is taking time to just turn-off from work.
Tweetable Quotes:
- "I have always been a go getter, and over achiever." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
- "The next sign is and this might sound weird, but counting down to Monday." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
- "Then the last one is always feeling behind." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
- "Personally I am still on this journey myself, I am not an expert." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
- "It sounds simple, but it's so powerful." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
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