How much can you say ‘yes’ to without burning yourself out?

How much can you say ‘yes’ to without burning yourself out? I have been learning the hard way over the past few weeks that I need to schedule my time better. I am a perfectionist so when I say ‘yes’ to something I am in 100%, well I am actually working on not being a perfectionist at the moment, although I spent the morning trying to perfectly back a box of breakables for when we move house, well you have to do something perfectly, don’t you?

I was feeling completely overwhelmed looking around my home and thinking about how little time we have left to pack and move. We have 4 weeks, but 10 days of that we are headed interstate for a holiday, and out of the remaining 4 weeks we have 2 weekends that we are away, and the other 2 we have booked up with commitments. OK looking at my calendar I have just realised we barely have any days free to pack, OK I’m freaking out here!

Clearly I have been overcommitting, and so I am probably the last person you should be taking advice from right now, but here is some anyway . . .  My advice to you, and to myself is to schedule time realistically. Really think about what we want to prioritise for the week and allocate a generous amount of time to complete these set tasks. We need to schedule ourselves breaks too. Somewhere over the past few weeks I have forgotten to prioritize, schedule and have breaks. Which leads me to another piece of advice for you and I. ‘We all fall down’, that’s right, we all make mistakes and forget to take care of ourselves. Forgive yourself and shake it off. Then get back up, pull out your calendar, and reassess. Learn from your mistakes! That is key to success. Even the greatest, most successful people make mistakes. Mistakes do not equate to failure, giving up does.

I wrote a post  asking is it selfish to say YES to me? The answer is no. We are no good to anyone, especially ourselves and our families if we burn out. We need to remember the difference between being self centred and being kind to ourselves. Selfish is not a dirty word!

I am now going to reassess my week . . . .

Thanks for joining me, love Mackenzie