Three Things You Can Do To Manage Your Workload Better

In the session, we discuss several great hacks to help you manage your workload better. Are you struggling to keep up with your to-do list? Are you constantly feeling tired or getting sick?

The life and work schedule of an entrepreneur is not the classic nine-to-five. Usually, entrepreneurs work around the clock to tick off the enormous workload they have piling up. But is the workload causing so much stress that it may be impacting your health? If so, how can you manage the workload better?

There’s one thing that is actually certain about entrepreneurs, they end up accumulating more and more and more things onto their plate. So, how do they manage all that? Michael Gilmour

If you’re looking at your list and thinking, ‘How am I going to get through all of this?’ you’re not alone. We may have just the right insight for you to tackle and survive that long list of things to do.

If you’re overworking, your mind or body will eventually give way.

One of the things we’ve seen or experienced ourselves is after getting through our workday. We go home to one of our kids asking for help with homework or a partner asking to do a simple chore like taking the trash out, turning into the straw that breaks the camel’s back. And there it was, that one last thing that became too much.

And it’s not the simple homework task or the chore your partner asked you to do. The problem is that you’re not taking care of yourself and are unable to relax and offload some of your to-do list tasks. You’re burning yourself out, and you could potentially be making yourself sick.

Learn about yourself, then act on it!

Are you a procrastinator? Maybe ask yourself why you are pushing that task away. Most of the time, it has to do with our high expectations that we’re not able to meet because of exhaustion, and we don’t want to fail. It could also be because you don’t know how to get it done, how to answer that question, or how to handle a difficult situation in your team. Asking for help is a great way to get through uncertainty or difficult tasks.

I thought there has to be a better solution to this. so I began searching for a better way to run my entrepreneurial life. Michael Gilmour

You can also ask yourself, what are you allocating your time to? Are you focusing on the most important tasks? Are you prioritizing your to-do list? Do you know what needs to be done first?

An efficient way to manage your workload is to understand what comes first what’s important for today. As entrepreneurs, we always find another thing we need to work on; there’s always something else, but that doesn’t mean that it all has to get done simultaneously. Don’t overwhelm yourself, and learn how to prioritize. A pro tip is to focus on three big tasks a day.

Break up your working day

At this point, especially with the pandemic, we’ve all realized that we cannot be productive and efficient 24 hours a day. Are you aware of your most productive hours? Is it two hours early in the morning? Or late at night? Figure out when you are the most productive and block those hours to focus on the day's most important tasks.

There were so many stresses and so many things being imposed upon me from all different sides that I lost track of what was important. And I ended up jumping to everyone else’s tune rather than to my own. Michael Gilmour

Don’t forget to make time every day to step aside from the workload and focus on yourself and your mental and physical health. Take brakes, many if you need to!

Talk about your feelings

If you’re feeling overwhelmed or stressed, say it! Sharing what you’re experiencing can help you release some bottled-up emotions that are blocking you from getting things done. If you adjust your focus, you will be allowing yourself to take a step back and view things from a fresh perspective, usually a more objective one.

It’s really important to give people a chance to say something about how they’re feeling, something personal, something that has nothing to do with work, to just let them feel connected on a human level. Jeff Sass

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