A women’s leadership coach, Jean was exhausted from striving, and overwhelmed from having so much to do. She invested in Staying In The Now. Her shift was spectacular!…
“Work-life balance had always been a problem of too much work. Then I swung the other way and had too much life. I always seemed to be striving to get balance. And despite having less work, I still felt overwhelmed by the amount of life admin I had to do and the little time I had.
I felt that if I’m not productive, I’m wasting time and being lazy. I was spending so much of my time saying ‘I really should go and do…’ instead of just enjoying time resting. The realisation that resting wasn’t wasting time, it was necessary, it was what my body was asking for to re-energise. Ironically, I now see resting as an activity – a regenerative process.
By the end of the programme, I felt a new sense of calm.
One of the key shifts was going from feeling overwhelmed, putting myself under pressure by saying ‘I’ve got so much to do’ and realising that yes, I have so much to do – but it doesn’t all have to be done today. And that’s the key. It will all happen, and it will happen when it happens.
Not only that, I’m paying attention to where my energy is and doing what feels aligned in that energy. So rather than wasting time and beating myself up for not doing what I should be doing, I simply re-focus my attention on what makes more sense to do. I get to use time how I like! It’s made me loads more productive.
Even with a day of meetings, I feel really good to get in the zone and focus on that all day.
I make the choice. I’m in charge of my time.”
Jean Fleming, Leadership Coach
