325: How to Reset if You Haven’t Been Hustling Sanely

So before we talk about this little Hustle Sanely reset, what does falling back into hustle culture look like in real life? It's not necessarily some dramatic burnout.

Sometimes it's really subtle.

Sometimes it can look like constantly rushing.

You feel behind even when you're getting things done.

Your phone is kind of glued to your hand.

Rest sort of starts to feel unproductive again.

You're saying yes automatically to anything and everything.

You're working during every tiny pocket of free time.

Your to-do list has become your personality.

You're doing things because you could instead of because they actually matter.

You're accomplishing a lot, but you're enjoying your life less.

So if you're sitting there nodding your head like, yep, that's me right now, girl, I've got you.

And here is how we're going to do a hustle sanely reset.

Step number one, we're going to notice it without shaming yourself because hello, key one to hustling sanely is get your mindset right.

So this is where we have to start because sometimes we realize that we're overwhelmed and we immediately start thinking, kind of beating ourselves up for being overwhelmed.

We're like, why can't I get it together? I should know better.

I literally teach this stuff.

This is me to myself.

What is wrong with me? Like, girl, stop.

You do not need to shame yourself into a peaceful life.

You cannot shame yourself into a peaceful life.

You need to get curious about what's happening.

Instead of asking, why am I so bad at this? We need to ask questions like, what has changed? What have I taken on? What am I saying yes to? Where am I rushing? Where am I spending my time? What am I doing out of obligation? What am I doing because I genuinely want to? Where have I stopped making space for rest? Where have I stopped protecting the things that matter to me? Because sometimes the answer isn't that you suddenly became bad at time management.

Sometimes your life genuinely got fuller or you entered a new season and your capacity changed.

Sometimes you said yes to one thing, then another thing, then another thing, and now you're sitting in your car eating a protein bar for dinner wondering how the heck this happened, how the heck you got back here.