Are you a stressed out lady boss that feels overwhelmed and like you’re always running round in circles thinking.
“Does it have to be this disorganized even though I have tried to organize my work, my staff and everything else. It’s just like I’m firefighting every single day!”
It’s the same every day and you feel even if you try it doesn’t really work. You don’t know how to get out of the situation and you feel trapped in this hamster wheel.
There is help.
Let me tell you about one of my clients Katherine. She lives outside London and she commutes by train every morning into London to work, well Katherine was feeling just like we talked about before. She worked at a company where they were about 200 people. She had 25 in her staff and she had usually eight colleagues on the same level as her that she cooperated with, but they didn’t really do any real cooperation. They were all running in their own hamster wheels.
So what did we do?
I asked Catherine about what she did in the mornings and She said: “Well I do want to sleep late because I want to have as much sleep as possible because I never get to bed early enough in the evenings. So I just rush out of bed. I don’t have time for breakfast and so I just rush to the train where I commute to the centre of London. When I get there I do buy myself a cup of coffee and also a croissant and that’s good because I get some energy and when I come to work I have, so to speak, had my breakfast. When I arrive at work I then start just putting fires out trying to keep up and it’s not easy because everyone is running around and it gets really tiring.
I usually don’t have time for lunch and in the afternoon I try to get things together and then I usually take some work home. After we had dinner with the family in the evening, because we do eat a dinner together, then I do some work before I get to bed very late. I’m so tired, I’m so tired all the time.”
I said you have to get up a bit earlier so that you will have a nice morning routine. You have to have routines and systems in place if you want to have it easier at your job.
“I don’t have time to fix any routines and I don’t have the energy to fix any routines.” She said. But I insisted and told her she had to get up one hour earlier than she used to, and she didn’t really like it but agreed to do what I told her.
I told her you take a walk for 15 minutes, first thing when you get up, around the block just to get some air in your lungs and get your brain going. Then you go home and you have breakfast,a realy breakfast, and we talked about what a real breakfast is which could be cereal or porridge or something like that. We actually did make a list for her.
After breakfast, you take your shower and the can then you can commute. I told her that when you come to work you’re gonna have so much more energy. So she started doing that and after some time she felt good about that. And she did go to bed a little bit earlier in the evenings because she needed to have the sleep.
After that, we actually started to make changes to things in her work situation. The first thing was to have a chat with all her colleagues. The first thing in the morning just five minutes so that everyone comes together to see what’s happening in each other’s teams. If nothing’s up you tell everyone or if something’s going on in one of the workplaces then everyone knows. It’s great to get that level of transparency with your colleagues because everyone is kept “in the know” and can help each other out where possible.
After that, we set meetings with her staff every week so that you could say this is where we are and this is where we’re going and this is what everyone should be doing.
Then I urged her to have a proper lunch, and she said “well I do eat, I eat salads”, but it turned out to be more or less just salad. Not many nutrients. So we changed that and then in the afternoon she had her fruit, and in the evening as before she had dinner with the family.
As time went by she turned all of this into routines so that she had that clear idea of this is what I do on Mondays, Tuesdays etc. and this is what I do during the different hours of the day. She made it all her routine which eventually gave her some control over her time, and that’s what she needed. Some of them actually turned from being routines to becoming rituals, which are routines that she couldn’t be without. She loved her morning hour and so you could say she got addicted to it because it was so nice to have and it made her day, every day.
Maybe you wanted to make changes in the same way and don’t know how? If you do then just click the link below and we can have a short chat where we see where you are, where you’re at and where you’re going and see what we can do about that.
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