Start Your Year Set Up For Burnout-Free Success
It's week 2 of 2024. How are you feeling?
(choose all that apply)
Rested
Unfocused
Excited
Already behind
Strategically focused & centered
When Your Holidays Don’t Feel Like A Break
As a mother and someone who is very tuned in to how others are doing, the Christmas holidays are rarely, if ever, a real break for me.
I love the holidays, but sometimes, like this year, what I love even more is coming back from vacation.
My vision of time off: sitting in my living room, catching up on my design and lifestyle magazines, reading a great book, listening to 1930s jazz, and spending half a day crafting my 2024 strategic plan.
My reality: constant and often subtle pressure from everyone to "rest and relax" the way they want to rest and relax, being guilt-tripped for wanting to cocoon, forcing myself to make plans for the family or play games on their terms rather than mine, constant questions about what we'll eat, when we'll eat, and what we're going to do next.
I'm not sure what's worse, the crushing disappointment you feel when you realize that you're holidays are coming to an end, and you weren't able to spend them the way you wanted (yet again) or the pressure to frantically make something of the year the second you're back in front a computer.
How to Set Yourself Up For Success In The New Year
I might not have been able to curl up with a great book or work on my annual strategic plan over Christmas, but at Noteworthy, we've been crafting that vision since late November.
Knowing my typical holiday patterns, I booked plenty of downtime this week and the next to flesh out that plan, set goals, and ground myself in practices that will move me (and the company) forward without getting caught up in the hustle and frenzy of new year expectations.
I'm not alone in needing to set aside time to build a solid framework for success. Noteworthy leaders, too, need highly effective tools and systems to build success and fulfillment.
Pulled in a thousand directions, they feel pressured to deliver high-end results all the time. They have big ambitions that require an incredible amount of work and focus. It's very easy to slip into reactively doing rather than strategically achieving.
The end result is, of course, some form of burnout, a ton of anxiety, crappy sleep, feelings of resentment interspersed with guilt, and usually far less stellar results than if they just slowed down a bit.
Because of that, we spend a lot of time setting the right foundations and practices so Noteworthy women can approach the year and its opportunities on their terms.
Set a Focus Set a Plan
For example, on January 2nd, we rang in the new year with a peer advisory call. A majority of our clients came together to review their strategic plans and roadblocks to success and started setting accountability structures.
This week, we met for our monthly Deep Dive session. Most of our executives need to build influence internally so they can lead more fluidly and with greater authority while also nurturing external relationships to open up opportunities for their companies and careers. So, our Deep Dive focused on highly effective and doable practices, tools, and strategies to nurture and grow your network.
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Final Thoughts
I'm curious: how do you set yourself up for success throughout the year?
As a high-achieving, driven, ambitious leader, do you let the pressure get to you and shift into go-go-go mode? Or do you slow down, set your vision, course, and pace?
If you want to belong to the second group, we have room for 3 new executive coaching clients this month. We're looking for senior executive women who want to build success without running themselves into the ground. We only want to work with women who are genuinely invested in developing the strategies, structures, and habits they need to work better, live well, and succeed better. If this is you click the Contact Us button in the menu.