Seedling Ep 33. Separating your worth from your productivity
Tackling a big topic on the podcast today - how we can separate our sense of worth from our productivity. It isn’t easy and I certainly still struggle from this from time to time. In this episode I’m sharing the six ideas I come back to time and time again to help me untangle them. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or here: Links and further reading Your surge capacity…
How to separate your worth from your productivity
Detaching your sense of worth from your productivity and work is a big topic and one I see a lot of people struggling with, whether you work for someone else or for yourself. If you love what you do and give it 100%, it’s easy to link the work you produce with your sense of worth. For business owners, this can be even more pronounced. You started your business for…
5 ways I make life easier
After I graduated from university, I worked in a tiny shoe shop. I was promoted to manager pretty quickly and vividly remember one day when I was doing a stock take with my area manager in-store. After looking at my method and my numbers, my area manager said “You do like making things difficult for yourself, don’t you?” and then proceeded to show me a much simpler way of doing…
How to make time for self-care
I honestly don’t know how this blog post hasn’t been written before. It’s one of those subjects I talk about so much, I guess I just forgot to actually articulate it here on the blog. If you follow me online, you’ll know how passionate I am about self-care. After struggling on and off with my mental health over the years (from an eating disorder in my teens to anxiety more…
How self-belief impacts productivity
Being unsure of ourselves can have a lot of different side-effects. One that shows up for me is procrastination. I get so scared of taking action that I freeze, retreat into myself and procrastinate like my life depends on it. My procrastination weapon of choice is my phone, particularly Instagram and Twitter. Whenever I feel the discomfort of fear, I decide it’s a great time to watch every Instagram story…
How I organise my life
I never used to be particularly organised. In fact, I was messy, always late and very forgetful in my teens and early 20s. I’m not sure when the shift happened, but these days I’m very tidy, hate being late… maybe still a little forgetful. Being organised and planning ahead is something I’ve found so important for my general wellbeing (and mental health). It helps me feel prepared, eases anxiety (to…
Improving your productivity at work
Ever feel like you’re treading water at work? Like you’re doing a million things, but nothing seems to actually ever get done? When you’re in the middle of this, it is SO easy to blame other people or your circumstance (trust me, I’ve done the *ahem* research…). “So-and-so is giving me too much work.” “There just aren’t enough hours in the day.” “If only so-and-so would pull their weight…” Now,…
A Sunday night routine for a productive week
Since Christmas I’ve developed a Sunday night routine, without even really consciously thinking about it. What I mean by that is I didn’t sit down and say to myself “Come on Kat, sort your Sunday night routine out”, because - well it’s Sunday. Day of rest and all that. I’d never really given it much thought. And yet, somehow, I’ve found myself making some pretty good habits that help me feel calm and…