The Unreasonable To Do List and Burnout

Talk about a toxic to do list. One of our clients was given major responsibility to oversee and move forward over 50 projects at one time. And this in a Fortune 100 company. Clearly, nobody gave attention to stress and time management as serious concepts. Many people in organizations sense that there's just far too much list left at the end of the day. This leader hardly knew where to start, and it led directly to a plan to get out of there. Too much = overload = burnout.

Time management should really be all about priority management but when there is no clear direction of what the real priorities are, time becomes victim to lack of direction. Work-flow suffers.

Everyday we deal with men and women who want to move forward significant causes, projects and programs. But the lists they work from are so long it cripples them. And that means they have no sense of moving forward. The list buries them every night.

It's frustrating and no matter how well meaning, it far too often leads to problems with time management...and burnout follows.

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