ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS ~ NO WAITLIST
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What's on your plate
A free worksheet for working out what could come off it
When you're stretched thin, it's hard to see what's actually taking the most out of you. Everything feels necessary, so nothing comes off the list, and the list keeps growing.
This worksheet is for getting it all out of your head and onto one page, then looking honestly at what has to stay. It's designed to be printed and written on.
Who's it for
If you're capable, responsible, and the person other people rely on, this is aimed at you. It's built for the point where you've already tried to slow down and found that you can't, because everything on your list looks like it has to be done and most of it has to be done by you.
You don't need to be in crisis to find it useful. Most people who work through it are still managing, just at a cost they're starting to notice.
Four steps
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Get everything on your plate onto paper, across work, home, caregiving, commitments, and the standards you hold yourself to
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Sort each item with two questions: does this need to happen, and does all of it need to be you
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Notice what you're actually looking at
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Change one thing this week
What people usually notice
Two things come up again and again. The first is how little of the list survives the questions intact. Most people start out certain that everything is essential and find that a good portion of it is either moveable, shareable, or something nobody actually asked for.
The second is which category fills up fastest. For a lot of people it's the standards they hold themselves to, and that section is where the most weight turns out to be sitting. It's also the one nobody else can see, which is part of why it goes unquestioned.
The section that's usually emptiest is anything that was just for them.
I'm Jenna McGonegal, a burnout and anxiety therapist in Guelph. I work with capable, responsible people who are running on empty, in person and virtually across Ontario and Nova Scotia.
This worksheet belongs to strategy one of my free guide, From burnout to balance, which covers seven strategies for burnout recovery. Read the guide.
If you'd rather talk, I offer a free 15-minute consultation. Book here.