A note with the words ‘I have all the time I need’ has been living on my dining table, desk and nightstand for the past few weeks. It’s a reminder I come back to again and again when I find myself slipping into feelings of time scarcity.
If you’re feeling strapped for time, like your to-do list will never end, this post is for you.
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I have all the time I need
While I’ve designed my life to be slow and gentle, I too get days and weeks when I get overwhelmed. With the end of the academic year, my part-time teaching job got particularly busy a few weeks ago. That’s when it was time for a note to myself.
I have all the time I need.
This phrase calms me down, even if nothing else changes. It also reminds me not to rush—because rushing only makes the feelings of stress and overwhelm worse. It reminds me to root into the moment, and to make intentional decisions about what is on my list (and what needs to go).
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Some strategies to try when you feel strapped for time:
- Stick with your rest and self-care routines because you need them even more. By skipping them and telling yourself you don’t have time to do them, you’re only reinforcing the feelings of stress in your body and mind.
- Formulate your most important thing(s): what is the one thing (or things) that absolutely need to get done today? Once you’ve done that, formulate the most important self-care thing for today too. Prioritising like this forces you to make decisions that create space.
- Have rest be actually rest. This is one of my biggest lessons of this year. I regularly took breaks—generally every 30 minutes—but those breaks were often not truly restful. I’d use them to order the groceries online, to tidy up around the house, to do some life admin. A flare of chronic fatigue has forced me make these breaks truly restful, which for me generally means sitting (or lying) down on the sofa with a book.
Make sure it’s temporary: if the feelings of overwhelm don’t ease up, bigger changes need to happen. What part of your life needs to shift? What project do you need to scale down? What do you need to pause? Where can you ask for help? This is much easier said than done, I know, but vital if you don’t want to burn yourself into the ground.
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