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When doing becomes over-doing.
When doing becomes over-doing.
For those of you who GSD (Get Stuff Done) you might be familiar with those times when you overdo it. That can look like burnout, burning the candle at both ends, or just feeling that exhaustion when it feels like you have so much to do and the weight of the world resting on your shoulders.
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If you are in a leadership position, you might have experienced a time when you put doing ahead of your people. I know I have definitely done this when I put accomplishing a task ahead of my people. Small, subtle signals of this could be asking (telling) someone to do something before asking them how they’re doing. At the far end, this could be making sure your project is on time in spite of a death in your employee’s family (don’t ask me how I know this :)
Whatever the case, you might ask yourself the question, “is the way I’m thinking, feeling, or behaving helping me or hindering me?”
If you find that your drive, NEED, to get things done is hindering you here are five things you can do to flip that around to help you instead:
Overwhelm it with a Strength. My Achiever® talent theme is heavy on the execution and getting me to do things. When that goes into overdrive and starts hindering me, I know I can pull on my Individualization® or Relator®.
Have a partner. Because I don’t naturally feel the pulse of the emotions on my team very well, I would enlist the help of my Relationship Building people to help monitor for me.
Get a support system. This could be something as simple as a green, yellow, red where you label (or ask your employes) to use something like colors to help show you where they’re at. Green for all systems good to go. Yellow, things aren’t great but not an emergency yet. And red for stop, something is wrong.
Stop doing it. Simple in concept, much tougher in execution. But sometimes all you need to do is realize what you’re doing and tell yourself to stop.
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