Is overcommitting actually self sabotage?
Overcommitting is impacting your life, but not in the way you intended.
We have been there, completely stressed and overcommitted. Sitting on the couch at midnight, rewinding, yet again, the latest Netflix craze that is automatically playing in the background as we pound away on our keyboard planning forecasts for the new year, setting team quotas, rejecting and approving account trades and accepting the next 3 interviews that were just dropped into your calendar for tomorrow afternoon. And you still have to prep for the morning, take the dogs out, do the dishes and research a perfect spot for the girls night dinner this week. Not to mention the piles of laundry still left unfolded, and the holiday decorations that may not come down until March (if you're lucky).
So often we overcommit because we have a hard time saying no, letting people down, or thinking taking on just one more project or commitment is going to help gain favor in our career or our social circles. When in reality it...
Your misaligned priorities are sabotaging your relationships
We had no idea how we were sabotaging our relationships when we were just "working hard" to be successful.
Here we were again, texting "Finding parking now, be right there"... a message we could have put into a keyboard shortcut because we'd sent it so often. We were once again running "just a little behind", completely stressed out, blaming parking for why we were literally running in heals down an icy Chicago sidewalk because our friend had been waiting alone at the bar of a crowded downtown restaurant for over 30 minutes. But to be honest, it had nothing to do with parking, it wasn't even that we had left the office at the same time we were supposed to meet her. We were doing it AGAIN, a consistent pattern we started to recognize and neither of us was ok with any longer.
We've all heard that old adage "You can't find the solution from the same thinking that created the problem". You need a new perspective or you will just relive the same situations. We were finally seeing a new p...
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