Last week I was totally overwhelmed, which resulted in me recording this episode one week late. Why does this happen?
Notes:
- Last week I was totally overwhelmed, which resulted in me recording this episode one week late.
- It got me thinking again about why does this happen?
- My normal day looks like this:
- First thing in the morning, I review my emails and messages and then add actions to my task list.
- I use five.today to manage that task list daily, it's free to use if you want to give it a try!
- Using that tool, I then decide what are the five most important tasks I need to complete today.
- Some of those are new tasks, others are from my backlog.
- If I close those five tasks by the end of the day, I can log off at the end of my day feeling satisfied.
- Now that's my ideal rhythm, and frankly I manage to do that 99% of the time.
- I am quite disciplined about this: remember you cannot manage others if you cannot manage yourself first.
- Lately however I have been overwhelmed, so much so that the above rhythm has been completely disrupted.
- A series of dramas is all it takes for you to immediately find yourself fire-fighting as soon as you go on-line.
- In this situation, your agenda is effectively hijacked, and the five tasks you planned to do today are quickly forgotten about.
- Working in this mode is fine for short periods, but is not sustainable long-term for obvious reasons.
- For the past two weeks by the time I reached Friday, I was absolutely exhausted.
- Eventually the fires are extinguished, the root cause analysis reports are written, and promises of lessons learned are made.
- Once calm is restored, you get back to executed your daily routine.
- This weekend, I will record two episodes to make up, as I want to keep the sequence going even if I am late.
- I will post them a day apart.
- I am also behind on creating videos for all of these recent episodes, so sorry for that if you are following along on video platforms.
- Being overwhelmed is bad, but you will come out the other side of it eventually.
- What I am working on this week:
- Search results on greppr.org now open in a new window.
Notes and subscription links are here: https://techleader.pro/a/662-Being-overwhelmed-(TLP-2024w39)
