How Do I Ask for More Time at Work?

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If you can't make that space in your life by delegating tasks at home, delegates tasks at work, youre never going to get to self actualization. A lot of what prevents us from getting there as we don't want to ask for help, we worry about burdening other people. Just saying you're busy and d more time is not a good strategy. Our best data suggests that you can be penalized for saying, i can't do this because i don't have time. We all have the same amount of it. And it signals how we spend our time, signals what we care about in life to other people. So we need to be a little bit careful

Are you exhausted? We are. Between the long hours working from home during a pandemic, the mental load of worrying about the outcome of the election, and the lack of sleep that all of this has brought on, it’s no wonder that we’re tired and stressed.

Emotional exhaustion, as workplace well-being expert Mandy O’Neil explains, is one sign of burnout. She shares antidotes and ways to protect ourselves from experiencing it in the first place. Not having enough time for the people and things you care about can cause burnout. Happiness researcher Ashley Whillans gives us advice on how to find and protect that time.

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