I don't know about you but as a busy professional woman with kids my time is very limited.

There is nothing like coming home from a long week of work and the house is dirty, kids have tournaments, and your spouse has to work late.

This can be very stressful and finding ways to reduce my stress is a top priority.

Stress shows up in big ways like have a career change, relocating to a new city, loss of a loved one, but it also shows up in small ways like running into traffic while trying to get to work, kids calling you at work because they forgot their homework, and realizing someone used the last roll of toilet paper and didn't say anything.

Chaos and Clutter can destroy your Confidence.

What you will find inside:

✔️The difference between chaos and clutter

✔️How chaos and clutter impacts your career and leadership

✔️The one thing you should do to reduce the clutter and chaos and improve your leadership

The difference between clutter and chaos

Imagine a desk full of papers, books, pens, pictures, and your dinner from last night. What are you going to do 1st? Are you going to address the papers, or throw away the dinner, or push everything to the side. Do you see how the clutter provides so many different options that your brain becomes overloaded? 

According to Psychology Today, clutter affects women more than men and can lead to stress, feelings of being overwhelmed, and mentally shutting down. Chaos develops when there is a lack of routine, excessive noise, and disorganization. This can show up in your home and at your job. Chaos increases anxiety, depression and chronic stress

How chaos and clutter impacts your career and leadership

There is nothing worse than being the leader of a chaotic, disorganized work environment, and add clutter on top of that and now you have increased your chances for stress and burnout. Stress will cause your cortisol levels to increase. High cortisol effects your ability to get restful sleep. Sleep deprivation worsens your concentration and memory. Lastly, when your brain has to think hard to remember basic words, this impacts your career, your leadership , and your confidence.

The one thing you should do to reduce the clutter and chaos and improve your leadership

There are probably a thousand ways to reduce the chaos and clutter you experience every day such as don't procrastinate, start small, create organizational systems, create habits, etc. but I know that no one is telling you that chaos and clutter actually starts with getting more sleep. Once you have gotten restful sleep, then you will have the mental capacity and energy to come up with creative ways to develop organizational systems and you will have the energy to develop habits, etc.

Sign me up for both: an amazing career and restful sleep!

Visit Dr. Rachel Spears to learn how

Written by: Dr. Rachel Spears

Dr. Rachel Spears

Dr. Spears is the founder of Dr. Rachel Spears LLC, an online career and health optimization company that helps minority executive women have both: a powerful career and a strong, healthy body.

With over 20 years of health leadership experience, she helps women build a body that can sustain their ambition. Through select 1:1 coaching, Dr. Spears works closely with women in highly demanding careers who are ready to create lasting results in both their health and professional lives.

When she’s not working, you’ll find her at church, spending time with her family, reading, or enjoying basketball games.