Why Are You Overworking? | Episode 224
She's Equipt with Jennifer Allwood | The Christian Business Coach for Women
Jennifer Allwood: Christian Business Coach
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
You know by now that I am anti-hustle and all about making God and your family the first priority in your life. There's a trap I see a lot of women fall in.... and it's overworking themselves because they are RUNNING from the big, hard, and scary things at home. Friend, if you are overworking I want to get to the root of why this episode. Rest is so important for you to be at your best.
Hit the Highlights
(04:18) Parkinson's Law
(07:11) What it really means to be a hard worker, and why hard work shouldn't mean long work.
(11:04) Are you running from something?
(13:00) Overworking is a form of coping.
(15:00) When everything feels out of control, you might be overworking.
(16:59) There is no shame in realizing you need a change.
Takeaways from the episode
- Hard work should equal smart work.
- You might be overworking because you are running from something.
- Overworking could come from trauma.
- Overworking is a form of control.
- God is not a God of shame.
Listener Shoutout
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends this is Jennifer and this is the Jennifer Allwood show the podcast for women who |
| 0:04.2 | want to find freedom in both their life and in their business. I help women find the |
| 0:08.8 | courage to fulfill their calling in life without sacrificing their faith or their family. |
| 0:13.9 | In this show I give you my very best life and business advice plus bring you world class |
| 0:17.7 | guests and give you a healthy dose of Jesus every single time. So buckle in my friend. I'm so excited |
| 0:23.6 | you're here today. Well hey there my friend welcome back to the podcast. I am excited to be |
| 0:32.3 | here today talking about over working. So I have been talking with some of my better way |
| 0:39.6 | clients. Better way is the program I have teaching people about eight different ways to make |
| 0:43.6 | money in the online space. And we've got a couple of women in there who have just been asking about |
| 0:50.4 | like how do I stop you know feeling basically all of the hours even when I don't need to it's |
| 0:58.1 | we've been on this topic of over working. And and I love the topic because you know the thing is |
| 1:05.6 | we we don't do things that we don't in some way get a reward for. I have to feel tell me that |
| 1:14.6 | you know the Dr. Phil's show because he's always asking people like what are you you know and by |
| 1:20.0 | the way I haven't watched the show in years but when I have seen it in the past you would say like what |
| 1:24.2 | it what is it that you're actually getting out of your behavior because we don't do things |
| 1:28.7 | that we're not getting something out of that we're not benefiting from in some way. So you know |
| 1:34.5 | he used to ask some of his guests like what what is it that you're actually getting out of that |
| 1:38.4 | and so there's reasons that we overwork and um sometimes it's because I think we're getting |
| 1:44.5 | something out of it or sometimes I think it's because we're avoiding something so I want to talk |
| 1:48.0 | about that today. We're a quick though I'm going to read a review from Beth Hill sacred refuge |
| 1:53.9 | designs and here's what Beth says. Jenna listen to your podcast for several years now you have |
| 1:58.1 | the best guests from the business and Christian mindset no matter where you are on the spectrum |
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