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Hey there it's Marie Forleo and you are watching MarieTV, the place to be to create a business

and life you love.

Now, if you feel overwhelmed at work but don't know how to ask for or get the help that you

need, this one is for you.

Today's question comes from Candace who writes, "Hi Marie, thanks for your beautiful wisdom,

your words and spirit inspire me so much."

Thank you.

"I'm fortunate to say that I truly love my job so much, however, I'm stretched so thin

that I'm in a constant state of stress.

I have no help, seriously, zero help.

My position has grown and grown and I love that, but I'm just one person, not 10.

These days I feel like my skills are not being fully utilized because I can't possibly make

an impact in so many different areas at once.

Is it time for a change, even though it would break my heart to leave this place?

Thanks so much, Candace."

Great question Candace.

Feeling overstretched is really a modern workplace epidemic.

In fact, a recent study by the Families and Workplace Institute showed that more than

half of US employees feel overworked and overwhelmed.

But to answer your question my dear, no, you do not have to quit your job, this job that

you love, and you don't have to accept this constant state of being stressed the freak

out.

'Cause you know what?

This type of stress that you're describing right now, it is toxic for your health, your

happiness, and your coworkers.

Now the good news here is that there is something you can do to make a change.

Remember my life mantra, "everything is figureoutable," girl, including this.

So let's get started.

Step number one, I want you to list your initial responsibilities.

So Candace, think back to when you first started this job, and write down the specific role

and the responsibilities that you were hired for.

If it helps, look back at your job description or any emails that you have from when you

first got hired.

The goal here is to list exactly what you were brought on to do.

Here's an example.

So let's say your initial job description was Assistant Cucumber Chopper and your initial

responsibilities were retrieving cucumbers from the fridge, peeling cucumbers, chopping

cucumbers, and wiping up the cucumber juice.

Then you're ready for step number two, list how much more you're doing these days.

So now what I want you to do is add to that this, perhaps with, I don't know a different

colored pen or if you're in Google Docs, use a different colored font.

I want you to list all of the additional tasks that you now do.

So the goal here is to clearly identify the full landscape of what you're responsible

for now, and show how much more you're doing compared to what you were initially hired

to do.

In our cucumber chopper example, your new tasks might look like this: remove cucumber

seeds, update salad menus, make ranch dressing, manage social media including salad Insta-stories,

name new salad combos, create profit and loss statements for salad sales, source and procure

larger cucumbers, entertain cucumber farmers.

Step number three is circle exactly what you'd like to focus more on and why.

So now I want you to take a look at everything on your plate and ask yourself which projects

or roles or responsibilities really fire you up.

Which ones bring you the most energy, and most important, bring the most value to your

team and your company?

Circle the areas you'd like to focus on more, and then write down why that additional investment

would benefit the company.

I gotta say this part is so big, and it's what everyone forgets.

So what specific outcomes or results could you create if you had the time and space?

Let's say one of the things you really want to focus on is those cucumber farmers.

Write down why that's important.

For example, will wining and dining those cucumber farmers decrease costs by 20%?

How much money could you save your company if you devoted three more hours a week to

this area?

Don't forget to mention ideas that you have for projects or initiatives you'd love to

get to, but you can't because you're spread too thin.

Step number four is propose potential solutions.

So as a boss myself Candace, I gotta say, Team Forleo never brings a problem to my attention

without also proposing solutions.

And get this, they're always well thought out and they're written down, it's pretty

much standard practice in our company.

So here's what I want you to do, I want you to take a few minutes and brainstorm potential

solutions to present to your boss.

One solution might be that certain parts of your job are handed off to another team member.

Or, maybe some of the tasks don't even need to be done anymore.

Or, you might need to make a case for why the company needs to hire more help.

And finally, step number five is set up a meeting with your boss.

So now that you've done all this homework Candace, you'll want to clean up your list

and really get your ideas into a shareable, presentable form, because bosses, we aren't

mind readers, right?

You need to show us exactly where your job started, how it's grown, the changes you're

proposing to make, and why they matter.

So let's assume that your boss is a busy person and you don't just call or walk into her office,

right?

You email her to set up a time to talk, and if you need a little sample script to get

you started, try something like this: "Hey Cherise.

As you know, I love my job and the work that we do here.

As my role has grown, it's become more challenging to focus my energies on the most important

projects.

Can we walk through my priorities together to make sure I'm focused on the right things

and doing the work that's the highest value to the company?

It should take 20 minutes or less.

Looking forward to it."

Now of course you should tweak this language to fit your style and your situation, but

the point is to keep it short and upbeat.

And I promise if you follow these steps and really do your homework, you're going to give

yourself the best chance of making a change that both you and your boss are going to be

happy with.

Remember, in either work or life, before you point out a glitch, brainstorm a fix.

And that was my A to your Q, Candace, I really do hope it helps.

Now I want to hear from you.

Can you relate to Candace's struggle of being stretched way too thin?

I know I can.

Whether you work with a team or you work for yourself, what's the most important step that

you can take right now to make a change?

Leave a comment below and let me know.

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Wow.

Wow.

If I didn't do this, I would write jingles.

I sing it about the things every day.

I was going so good.

Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.

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Philippine leader jokes he used marijuana to get through summit meeting - Duration: 5:34.

 Mr Duterte made the comment on Monday at an awards ceremony where he talked about attending a recent summit meeting in Singapore of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and how the daylong schedules of such gatherings is gruelling

 The 73-year-old Duterte said he used marijuana to keep himself awake at the ASEAN meeting

However, he later told reporters he was joking. Philippine police say more than 4800 suspects have been killed in the drug crackdown that began in July 2016 after Mr Duterte took office

 Rights groups have denounced the killings as extrajudicial executions and say the crackdown is unfairly directed at the poor rather than the kingpins in the illicit trade

 Mr Duterte is known for making off-the-cuff remarks without much consideration for their content

 Perhaps the most notorious was a joke he made in 2016 about the 1989 rape and murder of an Australian missionary, which roiled relations with Canberra

 After his remark about marijuana caused a stir, he explained to reporters that he was joking

 "It was a joke, of course it was a joke, but nobody can stop me from just doing my style," he was quoted saying by ABS-CBN, a leading radio and television network in the Philippines

 "If I want to joke, I will joke. Now, if you believe it, then you're stupid," he said

 In the past, Mr Duterte has said he supported making medical marijuana legal, but his office said in May that he had reversed that stance

 Possession of marijuana is punishable by a long prison sentence and a heavy fine in the Philippines

DUTERTE JOURNALIST FOE FREED ON BAIL An award-winning Philippine journalist who along with the online news service she heads has been sued for tax evasion has declared her innocence and was freed on bail on Monday after turning herself in for arrest

 Maria Ressa, CEO of the Rappler website, said that taxes had been paid properly by her news service and the five tax charges were politically motivated

She was freed on 60,000 pesos ($A1550) bail on the one charge for which an arrest warrant has so far been issued

 Rappler has been critical of the government of President Rodrigo Duterte, who in turn has accused several independent media groups in the Philippines of biased reporting, including on his crackdown on illegal drugs that has left thousands of mostly urban poor dwellers dead and drawn condemnation by Western governments and UN bodies

 "We need to hold government to account, and part of the reason I'm here is precisely that," Ms Ressa said outside a Manila court

 "I'm not a criminal, but I've been fingerprinted like a criminal. We feel that we did not get due process

" Ms Ressa, who has worked with CNN, was the winner of two prestigious journalism awards this year, a Press Freedom award from the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, and the International Center for Journalists' Knight International Journalism Award

 "I think the end goal of government is to try to make our team lose focus, affect morale, but in the end the mission of journalism, especially Rappler, has never been stronger," she said

"We know we are doing something right, we know that what we are doing is critically important right now

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