When my partner looks at me in a meeting…… well!  But I’m getting ahead of myself.

The smart young project manager is explaining the details of where his team stands on the latest project. His manager looks at his phone and then looks back at the project manager. There is a disconnect. Smart young thing believes that it is important to explain the ABC and DEF of his project all the way through to Z. Old hand wants highlights only – A and Z.

A team member is asked a question. He is so busy explaining the context around what has been asked that he forgets the question. Other team members shift in their chairs and look bored.

We’ve all been there. Fallen in love with the detail of what we are doing and believe that everyone will love the detail in the same way we do. Or just rambled on, painting a picture when our audience simply needs a rough backdrop.

In both cases, our audience is thinking, “What’s your point?”

Know that when people look at you at work, they too are often thinking. “What’s your point?”

And when my partner looks at me in a meeting?  You guessed right.  She is defintely thinking the same thing.

So, whether note to myself or note to yourself.

Answer the question. And make a point.

It’ll kill ya!

The proverbial bus.  If someone tosses an electric fire into the bath while you are in it.  And stress will too.

So, what can we do?  Always look both ways.  And definitely not piss off our partner in the bathroom. But what can we do when we can’t sleep, our mind is spinning and we feel completely overwhelmed and overburdened? 

Sleep related problems are one of the most common symptoms reported by people suffering from stress.  They struggle to get to sleep or they wake in the night and then can’t go back to sleep.

Even when life is unfolding happily, a couple of nights of sleeping badly can make our world, before so rosy, seem grey and foreboding.  How much more so if we are already stressed out by work pressures, a failing personal relationship, money worries, poor personal health or the poor health of loved ones?

A technique I use can help you get sufficient sleep.  Let’s be clear, it won’t deal with the root cause(s) of your stress.  But if you are able to get enough sleep, you will also be able to operate as best you can during a difficult period in your life.

Sweet dreams!