Hey guys, welcome to Inside Annalism Mind podcast. I hope you're well. I'm doing really good. I normally record in the morning. It's normally my vibe. But currently it's nearly 6pm on a Sunday. So a bit more of a cozy vibe. I think it's raining outside. It's dark. It's kind of cute. And I basically put up a question box on my podcast Instagram the other day. And I was like, okay, what do you need to be told or what do you want me to talk about?

Because I always have lots of things to talk about, but I think it's great when I hear

like specific topics and I put together like a whole list and I put it in groups and

today I'm going to be talking about like study, work, achievements, you know, not feeling guilty when you take breaks, everything along those lines, which I think a lot of people do need to hear at the moment because, you know, we're going into that winter season and everything becomes a little bit busier in terms of work or studying.

You're kind of out of the summer mode.

It can be quite hard especially if you

struggle with like winter blues or like around this season and then also like a lot of my

uni friends are really struggling at the moment like a lot of overwhelm a lot of work I also

have experienced the last three weeks being like a lot busier because I was in Australia for five

weeks like month of October.

And you know, it was very like traveling and then I've come back and it's very worky stuff.

And you know, I've managed actually pretty well.

So I think that does show like a bit of growth on my end.

But also things have come up and I've already kind of like, you know, reflected on it

and kind of worked on it and putting it into action.

And this potentially may be what you need to hear at the moment.

Okay, so starting strong, the need to overachieve.

That was something that was put into the question box.

And, you know, I highly resonate with that.

Like, it was something that definitely went on in my childhood, you know, just wanting to be the absolute best at things, putting myself through a lot of stress to do it and already kind of reflecting on why, you know, where did it come from? I think that's always an interesting thing to kind of look into yourself and be like, okay, but where did this come from? Who are you trying to almost gain approval from? Who are you trying to impress

with this need of overachieving? And going straight into my stuff, mine was probably from my dad.

So my dad wasn't really present in my life. And at the age of like 10 years old I started like seeing him properly again and that

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