Boss of Busy by Alison Hill

Author:Alison Hill
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780730369608
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2018-12-31T17:50:00+00:00

RITUALS ARE YOUR ANCHOR

Rituals and routines give us an anchor in the busyness. We tend to get so busy that the important things get shoved to the bottom of the pile, added to the never-ending to-do list. So when things are crazy in this state of Burn Out — when that overwhelm hits us — those routines and rituals give us something to hold onto. They are the anchor in the storm. When I talk to people and clients, I often hear that they constantly feel like they're being pulled in a million different directions, and this is certainly also true in my own experience. It may be that those different directions are actually all really interesting and we want to sink our teeth into all of them, but the result is we end up just flip-flopping between a whole range of different things, making millimetres of progress in a few different directions, but really getting nowhere with anything in particular.

Once you've gotten clear on the behaviours you are going to engage in, and you've created tangible reminders of those things that matter in your space, rituals are the things that pulse and keep your values alive.

Use these three actions to turn your ideas into rituals:

Schedule it: we grossly overestimate how much time we have and underestimate how long things will take us. Which is why, when we put the stuff that matters to the end it never gets done. Flip that notion and put the things that matter into your calendar. Take five minutes on Sunday evening to schedule in the actions that matter for you this week. If it's a morning ritual, set yourself a time you can commit to; if it's a yoga class, block the time out; if it's an adventure with friends square it away. Once these activities that matter are in the schedule, they become your default, and you no longer have to make a decision. Honour the schedule and notice how your week changes.

Share it: find someone who can hold you accountable to this ritual. This is a person you trust who will check in on how it went, without judgement, but with the caring accountability to keep pulling you back to yourself.

Tweak it: adapt your ritual to still fit in when life changes. For example, what changes with your ritual when you're on holidays? How can you keep it up when you have to travel for work? Tweak it so it doesn't get dropped into the too-hard basket and become a good idea you had once but that never came to anything.

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