Guy Winch

You know, in which kind of like the stress is just right for us to perform at our best without getting exhausted, overtaxed.

But once we pass that area, then we start to mismanage the stress.

Then we start to make things worse for ourselves.

We start to self-sabotage.

We don't take the breaks we need to do.

We don't recover well.

We don't switch off.

Because when we're very stressed out, we need to allocate a lot of our mental and emotional resources towards handling the stress so we don't experience it in the moment, so our emotions don't flood us, so we don't become dysregulated.

That leaves less left over with which to do our jobs.

We start making mistakes.

We start deferring to automatic coping mechanisms that just, you know, those are the ones that are going to tell you, oh, you have five minutes.

You should look at social media.

That will be the right thing to do.

It is not.

But that's what your unconscious mind is going to tell you.

We don't have the awareness that we need to disengage the autopilot.

If we knew what to do, we could actually take a moment.

It takes five minutes before a day to look at your day and schedule, like, here's what I need to do here.

Here's what I need to do there.

This will be fun to do.