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On your host, Trish Blackwell, internationally recognized Confidence Coach, best-selling author and founder of the College of Confidence, the most encouraging place on the Internet.

I teach go-getters in life how to take their thoughts captive, how to step out of the shadows of self-doubt, and how to courageously step into their purpose with confidence.

It's time to pump our confidence muscles and train our thoughts y'all. Let's get started.

Hey guys, it's Trish Blackwell, and you're listening to the Confidence Podcast. You're at episode 558. This is the one that we're talking about overworking, overachieving, striving, doing too much, and not knowing how to rest.

Listen, if you are a driven person, there's a strong chance that you fall into the overworking achievement trap.

That is the trap in the belief that you have to work extra hard and you have to keep it up and you have to do way more than anyone else in order to prove yourself in the 1%.

And while being in the 1% does require you to eat better than 99% of people to take better action than 99% of people to do the mindset work and to read more than 99% of other people to have that level of commitment more than 99% of other people.

You still don't have to overwork to get the results that you want. You see there's this false belief that your work is an exchange of amount of time put in.

And in this episode, I want to introduce you to the process of self-trust and the approval that you can get from within yourself by saying enough, by believing that you've done enough to sustain the work there where you want to go.

That moving the needle forward doesn't mean living in a state of exhaustion and depletion and overwork.

That you don't have to stretch yourself thin and overcommit and say yes to everything in order to prove yourself worthy.

And so in this week's episode, we're going to talk about the overworking achievement trap.

How to trust yourself, work less and achieve more and finding balance as a highly motivated and driven person.

This concept came to me from a question. Someone said, hey, I've been struggling lately, balancing work and family life.

I recently got promoted at a job, which is great, but it also added more work hours to my already packed schedule.

I work 60 hours a week and have two kids who are involved in a lot of activities.

My husband and I try to make time for each other, but it's getting harder and harder.

I've read some self-help books on time management and prioritization, but I still find myself choosing work over family most of the time.

I know my family is important, but it's tough to let go of that feeling that work problems are more urgent.

I'm looking for advice on how to rebalance my life and put my family first without sacrificing my career.

So, if you're stressed levels are through the roof.

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