Tips for Building Mental Fitness for Better Time Management
I had the opportunity to interview MYNDY founder and coach Lissy Alden about mental fitness. You can watch the interview by clicking on the graphic below or read the highlights beneath it:
We covered a lot of ground surrounding mental fitness, including:
*There are brain exercises you can do to be more successful with all decision-making, including if you’re “time blind.”
*her “traffic light” framework of:
Red = stop/recovery/allowing your brain to rest
Yellow = slow / creating new mental patterns
Green = go / making and recognizing progress
*recognizing when you’re in need of mental fitness (mind racing, struggling to “catch your breath,” feeling like you’re on a hamster wheel) and examples of what you can do
*3 key components of burnout
-feeling like you can’t do your job well
-sense of reduced energy
-negative thinking
*Perfection is impossible, so no need to beat yourself up for not attaining it on any given day.
*It’s important to have a framework to lean on when you have those overbooked days or days when things just do not go your way.
*for leaders – a sign of your employees hitting “toastiness” is when>
-they’re not meeting your expectations on a regular basis (and it’s not due to incompetence or lack of work ethic)
-you overhear the word “overwhelm” more and more
-you see the “can-do” attitude less and less
*what to do if your boss/supervisor does not have this kind of awareness
*4 elements of organizational fitness:
-expectations (goals, behaviors, priorities)
-mechanisms for communication and accountability
-foundations (expectations, ability to take breaks, paid on market, check-ins, recognized for work they do)
-creating an environment for progress
*her variation of my 3+3
To find out more about mental fitness, connect with Lissy Alden:
Website: www.myndy.co
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lissy-alden/
YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp0bfZQGJfGlPzxCAftPlxA (@MYNDY_Mental_Fitness)
About Lissy Alden: Lissy Alden is CEO + Founder of MYNDY, a pioneering Organizational + Mental Fitness company built to beat employee burnout. Recognizing stress as a multifaceted challenge, she’s engineered two proven frameworks addressing psychological, physiological, and organizational factors that simultaneously empower organizations to achieve ambitious goals while maintaining employee wellbeing. She went to Cornell and has her graduate degree from MIT, where she began the foundational research for MYNDY.
For more recommendations on how to think differently in order to create more time, check out The Inefficiency Assassin: Time Management Tactics for Working Smarter, Not Longer.
