Work Well Under Pressure? [472]

Ever felt like you're drowning under pressure but still manage to come through, thriving? That's pretty much been my recent life story. Striving to meet a certification deadline, creating hundreds of videos, engaging in one-on-one calls, and juggling strategy sessions, I've been pushing the boundaries of my capabilities. However, I've also learned some valuable lessons about the importance of balance, self-care, and recalibration.

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Speaker 1 0:01

Today's podcast episode is brought to you from my tub . It's been a full week it has been . It's like balls to the wall over here to get all my certification materials in by Monday . So pretty much my weekend is going to be all focusing on getting all these deliverables created and turned in , because that is 100% my priority . I think it's interesting that some of us work so much better under pressure than others , and you've probably heard me talk about human design on here before , but actually it's really funny because my human design says I work better under pressure and I'm like , okay , yay , do I want to do this all the time ? 100% no , I do not , but it's been really important to me .

Speaker 1 0:50

I , back in October , I did . I challenged myself to do 100 videos and then , right as soon as we got into November , I started taking additional one on one calls with my , with my inner circle members . I already had one , two , three , four , five hours a week of peer and case study client calls and I added this on top of it . Plus , I was running raving fans any raving fans . I was running this old out AF framework recording the content creation machine videos , training videos , and it was just a lot and I think I realized I wasn't showing . I'm showing up with tight in photos , which I got a lot of photos this month , so that's good , but I wasn't showing up as much as I would like to be and I I don't want to should . But , like video is my life . I love being on video , but it's just . I've been exhausted and here's what I know Back in 2016 , 2017 , when I was doing a lot of strategy calls I did done for you services , for clients , but I also did strategy calls .

Speaker 1 2:07

So if you wanted to build your social media , your marketing , we'd hop on a call . And I got to the point that some days I was doing like four strategy calls and I realized I was way better if I could cap it to two a day and that gave me so much . I don't want to say relief , but my brain power , like strategy , is a lot of brain power . It's a lot of figuring things out . It's a lot of looking at the holes in someone's business and the missing puzzle pieces and making sure they all fit together and they're all working congerly together , and so it was a lot of brain power . And so one of the things that I did do when I took on , along with the case study clients , along with the peer clients , for anybody scheduled to call with me , I made sure there was no more than two a day . Matter of fact , I think the first sets I did were one a day . And then I was like , oh , I need to open this up because I need more spots . I need , like I want to get them all in before the end of the year .

Speaker 1 3:02

And so I've been on the screen a lot , and I don't know if you've ever noticed this , but sometimes , when you are watching your phone a lot or when you're at your computer a lot , and obviously I'm sitting down way more than I normally do , because I'm normally not in my desk this much , go , live your life , friends . This is just for a season . Just , it's a sprint . We're in a sprint mode right now . It's about over , thank goodness , but it's exhausting . It's really exhausting , and it's in the screen and the blue light and even I think , if you have blue light glasses and it's still exhausting on your eyes , it makes you exhausted and tired . And so I realized like , okay , this is part of my problem , this is part of the reason I'm not getting on video . And I'm like , okay , this can be your excuse right now , chrissy , but it cannot be your excuse after Monday . After Monday , okay , maybe you take a day rest , but after that it's back to being showtime , right , it's back to showing up the way that you were . It's back to doing what you know works , going back to basics , and I think , give yourself grace that there are seasons , because obviously the month of November , and even so far in December , has just been a lot .

Speaker 1 4:10

But I know that I have a goal , right . I know I have a goal date . I know I have a date to have all of this done and I'm going to make it happen . Even if I don't get enough sleep , Even if I have to sit at my desk a little bit longer than I would like , I'm going to get it done because it is a priority to me . It is a priority to have it done by the 18th of December , because if anything is not right or anything needs like edited or added or whatever , they'll let me know . If I wait till January I think 12th is my second If I turn it in , then it's either right or wrong , and if it's wrong I don't get a chance to update it and then I wouldn't graduate until the summer , so it's a huge priority for me to get it done by the 18th . So that's my goal . That's why I'm pushing so hard , and also , I love challenging myself , and I know this podcast is all over the place , but I think it's just acknowledging .

Speaker 1 5:11

Sometimes we want to like ugh , I'm not showing up on video . What's wrong with me ? Like what's wrong with me , which I did say that and then I was like analyzing it . Okay , this is exactly why you're not showing up on video . You're just tired . You're tired . You're putting a lot on yourself right now , along with running programs , running my inner circle , doing client messages every day in Telegram , supporting people who aren't sure if they want to be in my programs or not .

Speaker 1 5:38

Oh yeah , and then I did two 24-hour free coaching . I would coach on one thing in Messenger . I decided to throw that in too , because I didn't have the capacity to do a master class . I was like , oh , this is a great strategy to do this . Yeah , let me take a deep breath for a second .

Speaker 1 5:56

Anyhow , what I am saying is give yourself grace when you're not showing up the way you want to or you think you should , and also make things work for you . I come alive on video . I know this about myself . It's just right now I don't have the capacity , and I'm also okay with myself . I'm still making sales . I'm still attracting new people .

Speaker 1 6:19

Would I attract more with video ? Most likely , yes . Do I have a lot of behind the scenes I could be utilizing and editing right now ? Uh-huh , yes , I do so . I get to work on that until I submit all these things , but I think it's just important again to give yourself grace . Also , I had another deadline . I wanted to create this book that is part of the content creation machine and I was like I'm going to do it .

Speaker 1 6:50

A couple of weeks ago Things did not happen and so I did it over the past couple of days . 12 hours of my life went into that . But again , that's okay . I know I'm still going to get everything done . I work better under pressure . If you don't , don't do that to yourself , but if you do , don't do it to yourself all the time . So I hope you found some gold in this episode , as I'm literally relaxing in the tub , telling you all the things , giving you all the updates , and I hope that you're taking time for yourself this weekend and really enjoying yourself and planning some personal self-care . That's very , very important too , and I do have my lone mornings with all my meditation , because that's what's important to me . I'm doing some self-care not as much as I'd like , but it still works for me .