EP 269: Busyness Isn’t a Badge–It’s a Warning

Does “the most wonderful time of the year”  feel less like a holiday and more like overwhelm?

Feeling stressed or anxious during the holidays is unfortunately all too common. 

But busyness isn’t a badge–It’s a warning that something needs to give. 

Today on The Bridge to Fulfillment Ⓡ, Blake shares the importance of recognizing that busyness is not a badge of honor but rather a warning sign that stress and overwhelm are taking over. By shifting existing belief systems, you can start to reduce stress and achieve personal growth.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to identify the sources of stress in your life and truly understand which systems are contributing to your overwhelm. You’ll learn how to overcome busyness through small, actionable steps and create necessary boundaries so that you can begin to prioritize what truly matters.

 

What You’ll Learn:

• Challenging conventional wisdom by confronting busyness (0:33)

• Why tactics and boundaries alone won’t create real change (4:16)

• Identifying the core belief that’s holding you hostage (5:07)

• Actionable steps to shift your behaviors (5:55)

• A real-world example of how this works (9:09)

 

Favorite Quotes:

1. “How you do one thing is how you do everything. Meaning whatever the belief systems are tied to some of the problems going on in your life, I can promise you that they're tied to multiple problems going on in your life.”

2. “Change happens through a series of small steps. But when you actually can address these things at a deeper root, change happens exponentially.”

3. “Our fear is if we stop doing so much, we'll be seen or judged as lazy. We won't be able to produce the same types of results we've produced in our career... And it is those fears unexamined that steal our joy, that steal our impact, that steal our presence.”

4. “When we can start to see that our view of things is limited, that we have blind spots, that maybe we're creating our own stress and anxiety, that maybe the things that we really care about aren't as critical for somebody else, the weight can begin to be lifted.”

 

Additional Resources: 

For programs and opportunities to work with Blake, go to www.BlakeSchofield.com