Take This Tech Advice to Avoid Burnout

Have you ever noticed how restarting your phone or computer makes it run smoother? What if you could do the same for yourself? If you're feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or on the verge of burnout, this episode is for you.

In this episode, I introduce The Rediscovery RESET Framework and focus on the second step—EDIT, starting with eliminating what no longer serves you. I also share three powerful questions to help you declutter your life, reset your energy, and create space for what truly matters.

✨ What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

 ✔️ Why "resetting" is just as important for humans as it is for technology.
 ✔️ How autopilot mode leads to overwhelm—and how to break the cycle.
 ✔️ Three questions to help you declutter and eliminate with confidence.
 ✔️ The surprising reason we hold onto things (and how to let go).
 ✔️ The importance of community in making lasting changes.

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Transcript

  Call for tech help, what is the one thing that they ask you to do first? That is the same thing that can help with burnout too. If you're overwhelmed, exhausted, and it feels like the hits keep on coming, and you're ready to throw your hands up and say, no more, I'm done.  I've got one tried and true way to help you to keep going that I got from the tech people.

At the end of this episode,  I'm going to give you three questions that I ask myself that helps me to stay focused on doing this one thing.   📍 After a lifetime of always prioritizing everyone else's needs over your own, do you feel like you don't know who you are anymore?

You may be moving into this next phase of your life or going through a major life transition with different family dynamics, your career, or maybe partner relationships changing, and you're saying to yourself, Who am I? I feel lost. You are not alone. It's time to prioritize yourself and power your mission.

It's time to love yourself. Your life on purpose. I'm Michelle Vandahay, Certified Holistic Life Coach and Compassion Fatigue Specialist to mission driven people around the world. Let's explore who you are and discover who you want to become because you are worth it.   Have you ever had a device? Maybe your phone, maybe a computer, ever start working real slow, glitching out on you.

 If you ever call the tech person, what is the one thing they usually say to you right away? Have you tried restarting your phone? Have you tried restarting your computer? Have you tried restarting your modem?

 Isn't it amazing how often restarting your device actually  works with helping it to work faster, work better? I know right now, my computer that I have is getting older, and if I'm on it for too long, it truly does start slowing down.  I can't record videos as well. Getting on Zoom meetings is challenging, and I know if I just take some time and restart my device, it's going to work better. 

And if we're doing this for a machine, do you think that this might also work for you? A human,  if machines need to take a break,  we as humans also need to take a break. And it's not just about taking a break. But it's about restarting or what I call  resetting. This is why I created the Rediscovery Reset Framework.

Many of my clients come to me feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and some close to burnout. So today we're going to focus on the first E of reset, which stands for edit. And the first part of the edit phase in the reset is eliminating or maybe thinking of decluttering. What do you need to get rid of? What do you need to let go of? 

 For me, when I think about my computer the other day I was on a meeting and I'm like, Oh my gosh, I can tell everything's really starting to slow down, but my internet is good. So what's going on? I started exiting out of all the tabs that I had open, right?

And I want you to think of all of those tabs as your life So before I could restart my computer, because I couldn't restart my computer, I started exiting out of things. I started eliminating things. Because before I was on that meeting, I was doing all sorts of different work, and you know, you check an email, and you click, and another tab opens, and then you get a great idea, and you're like, oh yeah, I need to go work over here, and another tab opens, and before you know it, you have all of these tabs open.

And so usually before I restart anything, I start eliminating the things first. And so I want you to think about eliminating or decluttering for you as well. Because oftentimes we're living on autopilot. And autopilot can be really beneficial and great, when you don't have to It can really help you to keep moving forward without feeling so exhausted and overwhelmed.

The issue is just like with  me getting more and more tabs is when we're on autopilot. We start doing the things that we do every day, and then we are also adding in all the different things that are happening each and every single day. So, the autopilot can help us to keep moving forward, but then when we're operating on autopilot, and not Taking time to do a reset to eliminate some things, then this autopilot can become detrimental because you're adding, adding, adding, because usually that's what happens with autopilot is you're adding, but you're not taking away.

So when you find yourself kind of spiraling out of control and overwhelmed, one of the best things you can do is just get rid of some shit, right? We just got to get rid of stuff. I'm doing this right now in my office. I'm getting rid of a lot of old stuff that is no longer serving me.   When you think of decluttering do you sometimes think, yeah, I really want to do this, but it's really hard? I'll stick around to the end because I'm going to share the three questions I asked myself to help me to let go of things, even in my office, because even in my office, sometimes I had a hard time letting go of things.

So think about the last time you decluttered, or someone else maybe did it for you, or maybe someone even just like cleaned up a space for you, and you walked into that room, or you opened that drawer. Or you got in your car. How did it feel after having that space be cluttered and then the next time you open it, it was decluttered.

It was more organized. What's even happening in your body right now?  Did you start to smile? Did you take a deep breath and almost let out a calming sigh like, this feels good?  Did you maybe feel a little bit lighter? This is one of the reasons why it's so important to eliminate things, to eliminate apps, and to make sure that we're doing this on a semi regular basis so our autopilot of adding is, this gives us a time to recognize what have we been adding that maybe we don't need anymore.

So, when you're decluttering and the letting go of stuff, do you ever wish you had a friend with you because You're not motivated to start it all on your own, and it almost feels like this project is too big to do on my own. That's one of the reasons why I believe community is so important, and why I created the Love Your Life On Purpose community.

Not only are there exclusive live videos, behind the scenes, fun discussions, There's also other folks that could possibly use a declutter buddy just like you. And right now, community is so important for healing and support more than ever before. So if you'd like to join the Love Your Life On Purpose Community, you can go to Love Your Life on purpose.com or search Love Your Life On Purpose on Facebook.

Click join, answer the few questions and we will happily add you.  Let's get to the three questions I asked myself to help keep me focused and to help me actually let go of things when I'm trying to declutter and eliminate things. Number one,  does this bring me joy? Does this put a smile on my face?

Is this making me happy? Or does it not? Then maybe it's time to go. Not everything's gonna bring you joy.  I was gonna say my, my timers don't bring me joy, but they do actually kind of bring me joy because they're little cubes. But  my notebook doesn't necessarily give me joy, but I need to keep that.

So, just because you say no to this doesn't mean that you have to get rid of it.  But then if it doesn't bring you joy, Ask yourself the second question.  Did it already serve its purpose? Or maybe think of it in this way. Am I going to use this again in the next six or twelve months? And if not, and if you're like well I might use it in five years when this thing happens,  it may be time to let go of that thing.

Because maybe it served its purpose already. And I know this can be a hard thing for me, especially when I think about the context of my office, because I love learning and growing so I have lots of different books, lots of different magazines, lots of different even like just papers and workbooks printed out that have such amazing information in it.

But then I have to ask myself, okay, can I just trust myself that whatever I needed to learn, I learned and I probably don't need to go back to that. Some things I might keep, but I don't need to keep all of them. So maybe it already served its purpose, so then I can let it go. Because when we are holding on to things that aren't still serving a purpose for us, that can keep us in the past, as opposed to being able to move forward in the future.

So if you're feeling overwhelmed and you're feeling kind of stuck and stagnant. Letting go of things can really help you to move forward with more ease and flow and feeling less overwhelmed because you don't have this energy of pulling you back into the past. I went kind of deep on the second question, the third question is who am I keeping this for?

And maybe question 3. 1 would be why am I keeping it for them? And maybe you're keeping it for your past self.  Maybe you think, oh, I want to give this to somebody. If that's the case, give it to them or get rid of it because you don't need to keep it around. The other piece of it, which goes back to the, did it already serve its purpose?

Sometimes people give us gifts, and it's really thoughtful, and maybe at the time it was really great and put a smile on your face, but it's no longer serving its purpose. Are you keeping it because you feel bad?  That you might get rid of something that someone gave you, someone spent their time and money and thought of you and gave it to you,  but maybe the purpose of the gift wasn't that  you were going to keep it forever.

 Maybe it was, wow, someone thought of me  and it served its purpose for that moment. So who are you keeping these things for? So the three questions again, does this bring me joy? Did it already serve its purpose and who am I keeping this for? Those are the three questions that I ask myself to help keep me focused and let go of things when I'm having a hard time doing that.

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What question you ask yourself to help you let go of things when you're having a hard time.  📍 Sending you all light and love and always remember that you are worth it.