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REBECCA FIELDING

So, one of the simplest tricks, or tactics, that I see highly resilient but extremely busy individuals using is to change the question that they ask themselves in their work. Most highly conscientious people – and that's the majority of us – want to do a fantastic job at work. And we come in, and we ask ourselves, when we're extremely busy or under a lot of pressure, how can I do this? How can I do this?

And what I see highly resilient people doing is asking themselves a different question. They say, how can this be done? And that doesn't always mean that it's you. So they are asking themselves about the activity that needs to be done and looking at a multiplicity of ways in which that can be done. It might be them, it might be a colleague, it might be their boss, they might need to insource it, outsource it, or have a temp, or just do it in a different way or at a different time.

But I think those who are highly resilient are able to separate out personal guilt and personal pressure away from the work that needs to be done. And I think that objectivity, and applying that objectivity, is one of the simplest tricks and tactics that I see highly resilient people applying in order to manage their workload.