175: 10 Tips for Managing Overwhelm in Q4 and Year Round

Feeling buried in to-do lists and nonstop deadlines? Whether it's the Q4 crunch or just everyday business chaos, I've got 10 simple ways to help you tackle overwhelm and keep burnout away. Let's dive in so you can stay sane all year long. Welcome to the Launch Your Box podcast with weekly tips, tricks, and strategies to start, launch and grow your subscription box. Now here's your host, Sarah Williams. Welcome back to the Launch Your Box podcast. Today we're diving into a topic that every business owner feels, especially as we're entering into the fourth quarter, or we're kind of in the thick of it already. This could be just managing the overwhelm. And I want to say this, that it's not just about Q4. It's really top of mind as we're in the middle of Q4, but we have to manage overwhelm year round. This time of year just brings so much opportunity for us, but it also brings a lot of stress and it's easy to feel like you're always playing catch up. Now, whether you're a solo entrepreneur or you have a small team, or maybe you have a larger team like me, Q4 often just feels like a hamster wheel race against the clock. We know we only have a small window of time here and we want to make the best of it. But I mean, we're talking about from getting products out the door, handling customer service, prepping for holiday promotions. There is just so much on our plate in a very concentrated period of time. And for me, I've learned that when I start to feel this pressure or this overwhelm building inside of me, it's very much a signal to step back, reset, and recenter myself. I have had several years of therapy with a life coach. And I always know that when I, when things feel chaotic, it's because I'm behind at work. It's never really, it's never really something at home. It's always work-related. And so I know how critical it is to recognize where overwhelm is setting in before I start to spiral out of control. When we don't manage it, we often end up facing things like I call them burnout and bad decisions. I'm going to make a t-shirt that says that one day, but I think it's, that's the reason we don't want to make bad decisions. Bad decisions cost us tons of money in our business and we don't want to get to the place of burnout. So those two reasons alone is why we need to get this under control. So today I'm going to share 10 practical strategies that I use personally myself and with my team to reduce the overwhelm and stay focused. Not only in Q4, but year round. This whole episode is about finding simple but effective ways to make things more manageable for you. So if you're a note-taker, grab a notebook or just sit back, go for a walk, get in the car, go for a drive, and just let a few of these ideas sink in to help keep you grounded and productive as we head to this year's finish line. All right, so let's dive into my 10 tips. Okay, number 1, it's almost too late for this, but I want you to get ahead of this for next year. Okay. Number 1 is early planning. And I say it's too late for this for fourth quarter because we're dead in the middle of fourth quarter. There's nothing early planning about anything we do for the rest of this year. But I want you to ask yourself, have you started planning for 2025? If you haven't started planning January, it's time. We just went through a couple planning sessions in October for the first half of 2025. And when I say planning, what that looks like on the membership level is planning content, planning offers, planning opt-ins, and the workload that comes with it. Okay. When I say planning for the retail e-commerce business, we are planning launches, we are planning events. And schedules, and we're planning promotions. We, we've got spring gift boxes. We have a ton of spring holidays that we have to prep and plan for because spring is really like our second Christmas season. So we have a lot of gift giving that happens around Easter and Mother's Day, graduation, Teacher Appreciation, those holidays. So we have to kind of plan that early. So if you haven't— plus we have to plan our boxes right? So if I haven't taken a look at January's box by now, it's almost too late. And you really need to— if you're ordering from overseas, you need to be planning through about April right now because we have Chinese New Year coming up. And so if you're producing overseas, those are the things that we need to be looking at. So if you haven't started planning, we need to be ahead. We should be 6 to 8 months ahead all the time, and I would like to be a year ahead. That's always my goal. I get there rarely, but sometimes it happens. Sometimes it happens. But but we've gotta, we've gotta do early planning. If we can plan ahead and then it's not just the big ideas, but then the workload that goes along with it. When it comes time for that thing to happen, we are more likely to get it done than not. If we've laid out the steps and when that stuff needs to happen, if I'm going to launch in March, what needs to happen in February to make sure I'm set for my launch? If I wait to think about it in February, I'm behind again. And then again, I'm operating, operating in this a state of chaos. I'm operating in a state of hurry, rush, and then that's where the burnout and the bad decisions come in, right? So number 1, we've got to get early planning done. And if you struggled with that this year, I want you to make that one of your goals going into 2025. I've got to get planned early. Okay, number 2, I need you to prioritize self-care. I know it seems crazy, but I put it as number 2 because it's that important. What are your non-negotiables in your daily life? We talked about this on a Facebook Live a couple months ago, and I said my non-negotiables are my 30 minutes with my coffee by myself in the morning. So I'm gonna make sure that I get up and sit and relax, and I'm not drinking coffee while— I mean, I am drinking coffee while I'm getting ready, but I also have the time to just sit be still with my thoughts, take a look at my calendar, take a look at my to-do list for the day, just get myself together, get my thoughts together and get myself set for the day. And that's one of my non-negotiables. If I don't have that 30 minutes, I feel chaotic all day long. The second ritual is my evening bath. I love to soak and just sit in the bath, wind down from the day, relax. Sometimes I'm going through email while I'm in the bathtub. Sometimes I'm just scrolling social media. Sometimes I'm laying there with a washcloth over my eyes. And just trying to let the stress of the day go. But when I take that bath, my day is done. Okay? Sometimes I like to take that at 7:30. I've had a hard day. I want to take a bath. When I take that bath, my day is done. I don't pick up the computer after that. I don't check email after that. Like whatever time I take that bath, whether that's 7 o'clock or 11 o'clock at night, my day is done. And that's just a closure that I put on my day. And so what are your daily rituals? It might be exercising. It's not my daily ritual, but it very much could be. It could be going for that daily walk. It could be having a conversation with a friend. Whatever you do that helps you relax and reset, we have to prioritize that even in the midst of Q4 when we feel like we don't have that extra hour. We don't have— Sarah, I don't have 45 minutes to take a bath. I'm literally working and falling into my bed. Right. If you're saying that to me, I need you to prioritize something that helps you put closure on your day and reset yourself for the next day. Okay, then number 3 goes right along with this because all of this leads to burnout because we think, oh, I can do one more thing and get one more order out and get one more social media graphic made. I can do this. I got to get up my landing page. I got to set up the emails. We keep doing that all day long and we never take a minute to rest. But number 3 is we've got to stay hydrated and we got to stay rested. And I'm guilty of the not staying hydrated because I'm just going, going, going. And I don't think to stop and drink some water. I don't think about what I need. I feel like coffee is enough hydration for me, but it's not. But we've got to be hydrated whether you eat or not, stay hydrated. And I need you to get some sleep. We can't be productive. We can't be mentally clear without proper sleep. Okay, so you've got to be rested and you can't keep operating on 3 or 4 hours of sleep every night because you're trying to get through the Christmas rush. You're going to mess up orders. You're going to mess up things that's going to cause more work for you. It's going to cause more stress and it's not worth it for your mental health, your physical health, and the health of your business. So you got to go take that bath and shut it down for the day. Okay. Whatever your bath is to you, go take that walk, go sit on the patio, go watch a TV show, whatever that is. Okay, so those are 1, 2, and 3. Early planning. You got to start now. Prioritize your self-care. Stay hydrated and rested. Number 4, these are more tactical. I need you to have dedicated email support times. One of the things that we like to do is we like to let our inbox dictate our day. And you're going to understand what I mean when I tell you this. So I wake up in the morning, I drink my coffee, I look at my schedule, I got all the things to do. Okay, let me check my email before I get to work. Wrong. I know that I work best in the mornings. I know that I'm the freshest, more alert. I need to be working on the things that need my brain. When I check that email box first thing in the morning, Now my day is dictated by what's in that email box. Oh, so-and-so needs this. Oh, I've got to reply to this. Oh, I've got to fill out this form for this vendor. Oh, I've got to do this. Oh, I've got to do this. Oh, I need to check on this for so-and-so who didn't get their shipping tracking or whatever. That email box tells you what to do all day long. We already have a task list of things that we need to do, but somehow we let that email box dictate what we should be doing and when. So I need you to avoid checking your inbox until you have a break in the day. If I go to work knowing I want to work on this first thing, so I get it knocked out and done for the day. The minute I don't do that and I check my email instead, I've wasted a good 2 hours of letting my email box tell me what I'm going to do the first 2 hours that I'm at work. That's my most productive time. Being in that inbox is not the most productive thing for me at that time. So I need to get the hard work done in the morning. Then when I take a break 2 hours later, then I'm going to dedicate 30 minutes or an hour and I am going to set my timer and I'm going to check my inbox for that 30 minutes or an hour. And when that 30 minutes to an hour is up, I'm just going to go through and I'm going to complete whatever needs to be completed in that hour. And when my time is up, I go back to my important tasks. I'm not going to sit and check my inbox all day long. Because it derails everything we had planned to do that day. So I need you to decide, when am I going to check my email in the day? You need to have dedicated times to handle your email so that you avoid distracting yourself all day long. That might be at lunchtime. That might be in the morning. You want to do first hour while you're drinking your coffee, you go through your email. Fine. It might be at the end of the day. But you can't do that all day long. You need to close it out so it's not constantly notifying you while you're on the computer working on other things. But we have to have dedicated email support time, and that's going to help you be more productive and feel better at the end of the day that you got what done, what you needed to get done. Now, number 5 is the same thing in a different area. And you might be listening right now and thinking, okay, yeah, Sarah's right. I'm letting my inbox tell me what to do every day. I got to stop it. I'm the boss. I'm in charge. I'm not going to let my email be in charge of me. Right? Okay, check. Here's another thing I don't want you to let be in charge of you: social media. You have to set dedicated times for social media, okay? So if that is checking DMs, replying to comments, posting, you have to set dedicated social media engagement times a day. And that could be Whenever you want it to be, but it cannot be all day long. That is the most unproductive thing that you can do unless you have a social media manager that's working for you and that's their job. Let that be their job. If it's your job right now because you don't have a person in place to do that, you have to set dedicated times that you're going to be in and on social media for your business. It is such a distraction to answer, to get a notification. Oh, there's a DM on Facebook. Let me go see what somebody needs. Oh, I've got a DM on Instagram. Let me go figure out what somebody needs from me. We're so busy, we don't have time to keep stopping and starting. I read this book called The One Thing, and there's a section in there called switchtasking. And I was reading this going, oh my gosh, I switchtask all day long. And that's switching from one thing to the next thing to the next thing to the next thing. There's somebody walking into my office asking me— so I'm, maybe I'm writing an email for a marketing campaign. So my thoughts are, okay, what's this promotion? How many emails am I going to be sending? Okay, email number 1 needs to be this, email number 2 needs to be that. I got it all outlined in my head. I'm going to start email number 1. I'm deep in it. Somebody walks into my office while I'm deep in the middle of writing this email and they say, hey, do you know when those sweatshirts are going to come in? My brain has to stop and I turn my head and I look at her and my brain has to switch tasks. Now I'm like, okay, what sweatshirts is she talking about? What are they for? What color are they? When did I order them? Now I've got to go look at my online order vendor and look and see when they're set to arrive. And I've switched. It's taken me time to figure out what she's actually talking about because my brain was so focused on something else. I've now switched tasks over to these sweatshirts that didn't matter in that moment. And then she's like, okay, great. Now I have to switch back to my email, so my brain has to completely reset. Okay, what email was I writing? Where was I at? What did I want to say to complete out this email? Because I had to switch tasks, I lost 20% of the time that I could have been finished with that email had I not been interrupted. And our social media and our inbox make us switch tasks all day long. People call it multitasking, but we can't actually do two tasks at once. And if we try to, they're not— we're not efficient and we're not effective. So having dedicated times for that stuff is so important because there will be constant interruptions all day long. Close out social media, turn your phone off, shut the door to your office, close out your inbox. And when you get done with that email campaign, Then go spend 30 minutes on social media and go spend 30 minutes on your inbox. And that's how we stay productive and that's how we get our work done for the day. And it doesn't carry on to the next day and the next day and the next day. Okay. So number 5, dedicated social media times. All right. Number 6, set clear boundaries. Remember how I told you I was— I switch tasks all day. We've got to set boundaries for ourselves. For our teams and for our customers to keep personal time sacred and avoid the burnout. Okay, so when I'm at work, I work hard all day long from the time I kind of— I don't want to say clock in because I don't clock in, but for the time I show up at my desk and the time I leave, I am working hard nonstop. You're not going to find me not doing not work. Okay, so I'm working hard. So when I decide I'm done for the day, and I want to go watch a show with my boyfriend, or I want to go to a basketball game and watch my daughter, or I want to go have dinner at my parents' house, I want to do something non-work, I expect that I'm not going to be required to work during those personal times. So we have to set boundaries. That's a boundary you have to set for yourself. Like, okay, when I go to a basketball game, unless there's something on fire in my business, I'm not doing business work. Okay. I'm not there to do business work. I'm there to watch the game, enjoy the atmosphere, and be there for my daughter. I have to set that boundary for myself because I could sit there every timeout, every halftime, I could be working up a storm. I'm not going to enjoy that game if I do that. And that's not fair to me. That's not fair to me. And that's not fair to my daughter, but yet somehow we feel this guilt that we always have to be working. We don't. So we need to set that boundary and I need to set that boundary with my staff. Hey, when my door is closed, I want to not be interrupted because I'm working on some deep work that needs my concentration, like those email campaigns, right? So we just have to set— and they're like, cool, no problem. And then when I get done, I go open my door. I don't say anything. I just open my door and that means they're free to come in and chit-chat with me if they need something from me. Me, but they know if my door is closed, I'm working on something and I don't want to be interrupted. And so they just save it, and then when they see my door's open, they come ask me all the questions they need to ask me. Okay, set clear boundaries for yourself, your team, and your customers. Okay, this will really help you avoid the burnout stage. Number 7: Direct, delegate, and prioritize for your team. As a leader in your business, whether you have 1 team member or 16 like me, you need to help your team manage their tasks by giving them clear focus each day. This really helps calm the chaos in their mind too, because what you don't realize is that they get overwhelmed, but they only have a little bit of the knowledge that you have. Have, like, hey, we need to get X, Y, and Z done today because tomorrow an entire semi-trailer is going to pull up and unload a whole bunch of product that we have to check in. If they don't know that semi-trailer is coming tomorrow, they're gonna work at their own pace, kind of slow, because they know they got today and tomorrow to do all the work. So they need to know the information. There's also kind of this— it's kind of this— I call it the overthinking thing that happens at my warehouse where there's a lot of different tasks to do and they all think that this one needs to be done prior to this one. So they're all kind of overthinking it. And I'm saying, you know what, this is number one priority. I want you guys to start on this. And that removes any question they have in their mind. That removes any of them thinking about it. I know the bigger picture. So if I can help direct them and I don't micromanage them, I'm just saying, hey, my priority for us is to get this done first. And then you guys can move on to the next two things. Okay. And that is clear to them. And sometimes we don't set clear expectations and we don't set a clear priority for our team. And then what happens is that makes us frustrated because something didn't get done that we needed done or we expected done, but we didn't give our expectation to our employees that day. And so as leaders, and, and those of you that have made this shift from solo entrepreneur to maybe a small team, it's the hardest because you're just used to doing everything yourself and you think, oh well, they'll figure it out, they'll get it done, they know what's happening. They don't know what's happening because sometimes you don't always communicate everything everything that's happening. Sometimes it's all in our head and we think they know and they don't know. I don't want to micromanage them, but I want to help them prioritize. And that's what I want you to do as a leader. And if you can direct them, if you can delegate, if you can prioritize, you're going to feel more in control of your business. And when you feel more in control of your business, there's less overwhelm and there's less burnout. Okay. So that's number 7. Before I go on to these next 3, I want you to just to think about the ones we've already talked about. Is there something here that is just screaming at you that says, yes, I need to do this. Yes, I need to do this. Just be thinking about that. Don't be thinking about, oh my gosh, I'm not doing any of these things. If that's the case, you're going to be burned out super fast, but you got to just take them one at a time. Okay. So don't be overwhelmed by all these 10 things that you now have to start doing. Just start to take them one at a time. And when you can layer them in one one, you're going to feel better and better about your workday. Okay. Number 8 is batch tasking over multitasking. Okay. We talked about this a little bit up in number 4 and 5, where we were talking about the dedicated email times and the dedicated social media times. But batch tasking is when you focus on one type of task at a time, like emails, like order processing. Like for me, it's podcasting, blog notes, notes, email writing, things like that, to improve the efficiency and reduce errors caused by frequent switchtasking that we've talked about, right? So for me, I love batchtasking. So like when I come to produce a podcast episode, if I can knock out 2 or 3, I'm already in that mode, right? I'm already in the talking mode. I already have my equipment set up. I already know the, the contents of each podcast episode. If I could just sit and knock out 3 podcasts in one day, then I don't have to do them for 3 weeks. I'm so much more efficient. But when I just do one at a time, like today, I'm just doing one at a time. I have to stop what I'm doing, set myself up, get my brain switched over to podcasting, get my equipment set up, go through my notes, practice my intro, and then boom, go. But if I do 3 at a time, yeah, it takes longer, but they're done much more efficiently than me doing them once a week. All the time. In this mode right now, I don't have time to do 3 today, so I'm doing once a week because there's a lot of marketing going on for fourth quarter. But during the normal year, I love batch tasking. I love batch tasking when it comes to like writing emails. Yesterday I sat down and wrote 8 emails for one of my upcoming promotions. And when I do that, I'm not stuck doing that every single day or figuring out or taking the time. It takes 20% of your time just to figure out what you're doing and then doing it. But if you're batching it, you already know what you're going to do. Number 9: learn to say no. It's hard at first because when you're building your business, you want to say yes to everything because you're building your business, right? But here's my rule, if— and you might need to write this down— if saying yes causes me stress, then say no. That's my saying. If saying yes causes me stress, then say no. There are so many times I've said yes to doing something and then I'm completely stressed out about it. You're probably shaking your head right now like, yes, me too. We don't have to do that anymore. And what that— if you're like me, you just, you want everybody to like you, you want to people-please, you want to just serve people, so you say yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and then you're completely stressed out and burn out, and then that's not good for you. It's not good for your mental health. It's not good for your physical health. So when you get an ask to make something for a customer, to do a custom order, to help a friend, whatever the situation is, if saying yes is going to cause you stress, it's okay to say no, period. There doesn't need to be an explanation. Okay, but sometimes we feel like we need to over-explain why. No, no is no. No, I don't have time. No, I'm sorry, I'm super busy and I'm already stressed out. Period. Period. We've got to focus on self-care. Number 10, and I think this is the most important. When I was talking about these with the group a few months ago, I think like this number 10 really resonated with people. And it's been something I've been doing for a while now, a couple of years now. And I feel like it just helps me shut down when I want to and then feel ready for a restart. Okay, so I call it my end of day wrap-up routine. So every day— and I've told you guys this before, but I don't know if you know— I use a project management system called Asana. And in that, I have all my tasks. Every single thing that I have to do every single day is in Asana. My brain no longer has to remember. What I need to do every day. And let me tell you, that's just a huge relief to not have to remember what I have to do, because that's where stuff gets missed, it gets forgotten about, and it's just really stressful trying to remember things, right? So everything's in Asana. So I do this really end-of-day routine before I leave my office every day. If I'm working at home at night, like if I've left the office and then I've got a few more things that I still want to do, I'll go home, take a little break, and then finish up for the day. Before I finish up for the day, I do this little end-of-day wrap-up routine, and you can really start that now. But I go through and review all my tasks that needed to be done for the day. Okay, so I start there and say I've got 2 or 3 tasks that I didn't get done today, and I just want to be done for the day. I want to be done. I'm tired. I'm exhausted. My brain is shutting down. I look at those tasks and I slot them into a different day. So I'll just go into Asana and I'll change their due date. So that might be, say I didn't get to recording a podcast today. That's on my task list today. I may slot it in for tomorrow morning. And then I just change the due date to tomorrow. I pop, block it into my schedule that I'm record that from 10 to 11 in the morning. Boom. That task is complete and out of my mind. There's other things I might need to do. I'm like, oh, I've got some free time on Friday. I'm going to move these over to Friday afternoon, I'm going to slot them in there. They're complete so that I leave the end of the day with no tasks left outstanding. And that helps me be done for the day. When you're an entrepreneur, you have like 100 things to do 24/7, right? Like there's not something that needs to be done. But when I put on my task list what needs to be done and when it needs to be done by, I know there's probably 150 more tasks on that task list, but they're not due today. So I can shut my brain off today. I got 12 to do tomorrow. I got 8 to do on Friday. I can do these 2 over the weekend. But when I complete my task for the day, it helps me shut the day down. And then I don't go home and feel guilty. And then I don't sit there and watch TV thinking I am wasting time watching TV. I should be working on X, Y, and Z. No, I've already worked it into tomorrow's schedule. I don't have to feel guilty about relaxing. I don't have to feel guilty about going to a soccer game. I don't have to feel guilty to go out, go out, have dinner with my friends, because there's always going to be work to do for us. There's always work to do. And we hold this guilt and expectation of ourselves that we have to work nonstop because there's nonstop work to do. But that's not true. We just have to manage it better. And so when I can close out each day, knowing all my tasks are completed, that's when I get to shut off work. So I want you to start doing that. And it doesn't have to be in a sauna. Could totally be on a piece of paper and you have your to-do list and you just write next to it what day you're going to get it done. And if you wrote on there, I'm going to get that done Wednesday and today's Wednesday and you didn't get it done, you scratch that out and you put Thursday, whatever you need to do, whatever system you do for your notes. I want you to close out your day. The other thing that I like to do is I like to celebrate a win for the day. Okay, so that could be like yesterday I told you I wrote all those emails. That was a heavy load. I took pictures for all those emails, I formatted all those emails, I scheduled all those emails. That was my win yesterday. I celebrated that I got all those emails done and now I don't have to write one each day. And so I want you to take time to just celebrate something you accomplished for the day because that makes you feel And when you can create a routine that helps you celebrate the small wins and close out your day, you're going to sleep better because you don't have a ton of things on your mind, and it's going to reduce your stress. Okay, so if nothing— not any one of these resonates with you, I want you to start doing number 10, and you can really start doing this today. Figure out what still needs to be done and then where you're gonna put it. And the bigger picture for this, and this is something that we worked really hard on this entire year, but we basically put every single thing that I do into a task, and that's where we built them all in Asana. So when I have to make a t-shirt, there are 8 tasks involved in designing the t-shirt. It's design a graphic, make a mock-up, Email your graphics to the screen printer, send order the shirts, like everything that's involved in, in doing a t-shirt for the t-shirt club, that's in a template in Asana. And all 8 of those tasks pop up and then there's a due date. When do I have to have those done? And I manually plug in the due date. I need to have this done because a screen printer needs to have it by this, or I need to have it done because I need to start running ads for this. Oh, Running ads is one of the tasks on that t-shirt, on that t-shirt template. So I'm gonna challenge you going into the new year to get everything that you do down as a task so that you don't have to remember the things anymore. Like, do you know how much brainpower that takes to remember all the things you need to do in your entire business? It takes so much brain power, it's exhausting in itself. And then when every single thing has a task attached to it and has a due date, it doesn't matter that I have 150 outstanding tasks right now. None of them are due today, so I can be done working today. And so that makes me feel like I'm accomplishing things every single day. I'm clearing out my task list every single day. It helps me stop working at a manageable hour and it helps me relax. And then what we figured out through putting all my tasks down is I constantly was having more tasks on my to-do list than I could physically get done in a day, all the time. I didn't realize that I was creating all this overwhelm because there was no way in one week that I should be able to get all of the things done that I had been trying to do. And no wonder I felt stressed and no wonder I felt overwhelmed. And that's when I had to start delegating stuff or I had to start removing stuff from getting done. Nope, we're not going to do that because there's not enough hours this week to do it. And now I'm not a crazy person because I felt like a crazy person because I couldn't get my workload done every day. I couldn't get everything done that I needed to do. Well, it was impossible because when we added up the hours that it took to do everything on my task list for a day, there wasn't enough hours in the day. I thought, no wonder I felt stressed. No wonder I felt so much pressure. No wonder I was feeling burnout because every day I was on this hamster wheel that never ended. And so it wasn't until we laid out the tasks and started to check them off did I start to feel some relief that, oh, I can do this. And now when I look at my weekly schedule and I see all the tasks I need to do tomorrow, I know I'm gonna have a good hour window where I could pop something in there and I could work on that. We even have it test out when I'm going to be in the group answering questions for Launch Your Box because that's part of my day. That takes 45 minutes to an hour every time I do it. So that's part of my daily routine. And you know what feels great? Checking that little box that says complete and then the little task goes away. That feels awesome. And I know it's something simple, but that makes me feel like I'm making progress when some days I don't feel like I'm making progress at all. So an end-of-day wrap-up routine is really, really important. Okay, I'm gonna go through these 10 really quickly, just the titles of them. And as you're listening to them, I'm just going to encourage you to focus on 1 to 2 tips to implement right away. And then I also want you grab one or two that you want to start implementing in the new year. Okay, so let's go through these. Number one, early planning. I need you to be 6 to 8 months out. Number two, prioritize self-care. What are your daily routines that are non-negotiable? Number three, stay hydrated and rested. Are you getting 7 hours of sleep at night? If not, that's a problem. Is there something on your desk right now to drink? If not, that's a problem. Okay. 4 and 5, dedicated email support times, dedicated social media times. Number 6, set clear boundaries. And the most important boundary to set is with yourself. We don't have to work 24/7. There's nothing in the entrepreneurial handbook that says I have to work 24 hours a day. It doesn't exist. Number 7, remember you're the leader. This is your ship. You're going down with it if it goes down, and you're going to Tahiti if that's where it's going. Okay, so you've got to direct, delegate, and prioritize for your team. They can't always see the big picture like you can. This is your job as a leader. Number 8: Batch task as much as possible. Do similar things back to back so that you're getting them done more efficiently. Learn to say no. Number 9, remember my saying, if saying yes causes you stress, then it's a no. Okay. And then number 10, we spend a lot of time talking about the end of day wrap-up routine, but I think it's really, really important. You can do this whether you're in the midst of Q4 right now listening to this, or if you're listening to it sometime later on. We need to put these in place no matter what time of year it is. This, but we can do this. It's little steps that we take as entrepreneurs and as leaders that really help us be successful. And these are 10 things that everyone can do, and you don't have to do all of them right now. Pick one or two. And remember, stress and overwhelm is temporary, but if we manage it the right way, we're going to get through it every single time. We'll be back next week with another great episode. Thanks for joining us on the Launch Your Box podcast. If you're looking to grow your audience, head over to launchyourbox.com and grab the 10 Steps to Help You Start Building Your Audience guide. 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