When Your Plate Feels Too Full

About this episode

In this solo episode, Jaymee Joosten discusses how to manage an overflowing plate of commitments while prioritizing health.

“I wish I had more hours in the day” If you have ever said this, you know what it feels like to have an overflowing plate. In this solo episode, I am diving into The Plate analogy — where the plate represents your capacity and everything you pile on it represents your priorities and day-to-day commitments. When your plate feels too full, it can be much harder to keep your health as a priority. But instead of waiting for life to quiet down (spoiler: it rarely does), we can take a more practical approach: learning how to expand our capacity (the size of our plate) and reduce the load (take unnecessary things off it) . I cover how you can expand your capacity by: → Getting clear on your priorities → Aligning priorities → Stacking habits → Scheduling and planning → Prioritising your health → Simplifying and automating As well as how to take things off your plate through: → Acknowledging emotional labour → Delegating and outsourcing → Setting boundaries and saying no → Challenging “shoulds” and creating a not-doing list → Looking at where you are leaking energy and cutting unnecessary stressors → Identifying what is urgent, important or otherwise This episode will help you step back…

Topics covered

• capacity
• priorities
• health
• commitments
• emotional labour
• boundaries

Keywords

• Plate analogy
• expand capacity
• reduce load
• scheduling
• planning
• delegating
• setting boundaries

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