Are you feeling overwhelmed with all the projects that suddenly need your urgent attention and support?
It’s
Lìxià, a time for bursting into action! We’ve finally fully thawed from winter and we’ve gotten our legs under us. We’re itching to get outside and make big changes.
Of course – this comes with lots of opportunities – SO many chances to help, to volunteer, to collaborate!
Aaand… so many emails! So many meetings! So many sign-up forms to to bring cookies to the bake sale, orange slices to every soccer game, only five more bucks for the final stretch of a crowd-fund!
Heck, you can afford just one more donation. You’ve got 15 minutes to help out!
Here, there, and everywhere, until suddenly you look up and realize you’ve been responding to email for four straight hours, and haven’t even gotten out of bed yet.
Which is why, every year, I offer this gentle reminder that if you fail to get honest about your capacity and set boundaries around your work – you are going to burn out.
And when you do, the damage will ripple through to your family, your collaborators, and those you’re here to help.
We need you rested, focused, and strong. Do not become a liability. Do not stretch yourself so thin that your work becomes sloppy, forcing collaborators to rush in and clean up after you.
This month in the
Dismantling Supremacy series, we talk about hustle culture and how our complicity in over-work keeps us complicit in the kyriarchy.
