REST AND RECHARGE!

IS THIS WHAT YOU'RE EXPERIENCING?

 

It's all getting too much. You can no longer handle the ongoing pressure of your responsibilities! You feel run down, worn out and unwell, and you're thinking: I need help! I can't handle this anymore! Facing the deadlines, the pressure, the lack of clarity and unpredictability of the changes at work is becoming increasingly difficult.

 

You're not sleeping well. You wake up way too early and see a hundred and one things coming your way, meeting after meeting and no time to get things done properly before the next meeting. You get up in the morning feeling drowsy and you drag yourself through the day longing to sleep.

 

You keep pushing yourself. You're hoping for a moment to catch your breath, but you're waiting in vain. You work late in the evenings (often also at the weekend) to finish budgets, status reports and presentations and to keep on top of your mailbox, your to-do list and that of your team, to meet all the requirements and especially to avoid missing a deadline. Being absent from work to take a break is not an option. You can't stand the thought that decisions impacting your role and your projects are made without you. Things have to keep moving.

 

You feel confused. You don't know where to start, which task to tackle next, and that isn't like you at all. You're worried that you are losing track of your todos and commitments. Someone recently asked you something while you were rushing by, but you don't remember who it was or what they wanted.

 

Your body is protesting. Your shoulders and neck are stiff and you feel all tense. You're struggling with muscle, joint, head or stomach pain and you have been experiencing palpitations.

 

You wish you had the courage to talk to someone. But you're concerned that what you're going through means that you can't handle your responsibilities, that your job will be passed on to someone else and that you will be put on some irrelevant task or, worse, end up on the next wave of redundancies.

 

You know that you're pushing your limits. But you can't get to grips with your situation. That little voice in your head that says you're urgently in need of some rest bothers you. That's what makes your heart start to race. It's that you know you have to choose! Chances are, if you don't listen, your deepest fears will come true. You'll get ill or end up with a burnout. Then things will come to a grinding halt. No job, no career, no more control over your projects, your body and your life.