7 Things to stop 🛑 doing NOW if you want to build your business with less stress, overwhelm and sleepless nights

7 Things to stop 🛑 doing NOW if you want to build your business with less stress, overwhelm and sleepless nights

Think about it, when was the answer to overwhelm ever to seek more things to do?

NEVER. Yet when ever the to do list is mounting up along with the inbox and staff issues, the message preached to us is hustle.

Yet given the opportunity to pause and take a 30,000 ft view there is no intelligent person who would look at you and the work ahead and point to inadequate effort as the cause or more effort as the answer.

There are however a bunch of things that if you stopped doing them you would be amazed at the space opening up in your diary.

1. STOP telling people what to do. It seems quicker in the moment but tell someone what to do and bunch of really undesirable things happen. That person becomes a boomerang who keeps coming back to you for answers, feels incompetent and will soon become resentful.

Instead master supporting others to their own clarity and create an employee who feels valued, competent and trusted.

2. STOP accepting back to back meetings. It might seem productive. But you aren’t paid for productivity you are paid to make high quality decisions.

Instead make sure meetings have at least 15 minute between them and make sure they follow a simple system that supports clarity and decision making.

3. STOP checking your email between meetings. Your constantly availability and responses are creating a world of urgency around you.

Instead take the time to create a clear email strategy that doesn’t buy into other peoples urgency and aligns with the mission of the business and your priorities and stick to that.

4. STOP keeping the challenges and obstacles that arose today in your head until tomorrow causing you to ruminate, map out scenarios and assumptions in your head making sleep difficult.

Instead get that stuff down on paper and allow your subconscious to explore it while you sleep soundly.

5. STOP working in the last hour before bed revving up your nervous system before bed making sleep shallow and disturbed.

Instead prioritise high quality sleep in order to prioritise high quality thinking and work every day.

6. STOP keeping your phone with you 24/7 if your phone is with you you’re on call. If you’re on call then your nervous system is on alert and you aren’t recovering.

Instead create a strict phone time table and stick to it. Your brain will cry tears of joy.


7. STOP rushing into your day feeling however you feel and dealing with what ever comes up first on the to do list. Being intent to put in as many hours as possible. Your job is not to put in hours or get anyone else to either. Your job is to get the business in high performance mode and that starts by getting yourself in high performance mode.

Instead fill your morning with energy and clarity building practises before you let the day come rushing in.

Overwhelm is a signal that the way you’re working isn’t working. What will you change first?