HOW TO SURVIVE THE MAD DASH TO THE END OF THE YEAR

HOW TO SURVIVE THE MAD DASH TO THE END OF THE YEAR 

It’s officially the start of the mad dash to the end of the year. If you already feel like you’re sprinting, well there’s going to be a lot of pressure to pick up the pace to get everything done before December 31.

What’s your strategy for surviving the mad dash? How will you stay focused, sane, and healthy, and still get everything done?

Try these three actionable ideas to help you get to the end of the year in one piece:

1.  Acceptance

First things first, accept and acknowledge the fact that you might not get everything done by the end of the year. Even if you worked 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, you still might not get everything done. There’s just simply so much to do!

The average human’s lifespan is about 4,000 weeks, with this being said, we only have so much time available to us to make choices about what’s most important and accept that there are a lot of possibilities we’re not going to get to in this lifetime.

Between now and the end of the year, make some choices about what you’re going to invest your time, energy, and attention into. Accept the fact that there’s a few things you may not get to before the end of the year.

2.  Micro dosing

Micro dose the way you manage your calendar. When time is scarce (which it always is), you need to micro dose your calendar as much as possible by scaling back the amount of time invested in meetings.

Our electronic calendars on Outlook and Google prompt us to schedule time in 30-minute increments. Quite often you don’t need that much time.

Take advantage of the little moments of time you have before a meeting or at the end of one to have quick and meaningful conversations with your colleagues.

3.  Don’t forget to breathe

This is a standard piece of advice for busy, stressed-out people.

Unfortunately, most people don’t know how to breathe in a way that gets one out of that chronic fright or flight that happens when trying to get a whole lot done in a short amount of time.

Here’s a good tip on how to use your breathing to activate the rest and digest response that will get you out of that fright or flight:

If your belly is moving out on a deep inhale and moving back in on the exhale, you’re breathing in a way that will enable you to focus, think more clearly, and make better decisions.

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