Holiday Wellness 101: Managing Task Overwhelm
What to Do When Your To-Do List Never Ends: Part 3 of 5 in Our Holiday Wellness Challenge for Leaders
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It’s Wednesday, and your phone is buzzing with meeting reminders, your inbox is overflowing with emails (including a new article from Leadership by 16Personalities that you’ll get to... eventually 😉), and your to-do list seems to be multiplying faster than holiday cookies at an office party. Sound familiar?
As a leader, you’re probably used to juggling multiple responsibilities, but during the holiday season, that juggling act can start to feel more like a three-ring circus where you’re simultaneously the ringmaster, lion tamer, and trapeze artist. 😬
Welcome to Day 3 of our Holiday Wellness Challenge, where we’re tackling one of the biggest challenges leaders face during the festive season: the overwhelming cascade of tasks that threatens to bury your holiday spirit.
But before you resign yourself to another season of endless to-do lists (and stress-induced sugar cookies), we’ve got a deceptively simple strategy that might just save your sanity – and it all starts with the power of three.
As a quick reminder, here’s what you can expect throughout the 5-day Holiday Wellness Challenge:
Day 3: Deck the Halls, Not Your To-Do List (You Are Here)
Day 4: Unwrap a Clearer Mind
Day 5: Give (Yourself) the Gift of Gratitude
The Holiday Task Trap
As you well know, your usual workload doesn’t magically disappear during the holiday season – it just gets packed tighter with festive obligations and year-end deadlines. Between managing team projects, attending holiday events, wrapping up Q4 deliverables, and trying to maintain some semblance of work-life balance, it’s easy to fall into the trap of creating a never-ending to-do list, which only adds to the stress.
This constant state of task overload is exhausting, and it can actually make you less effective as a leader. There’s a reason long to-do lists are sabotaging your success, but there’s also a solution – and we’re about to break it down. 👇
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