Why does everything feel so hard at the moment?
A simple 5-minute exercise to help you understand what’s really going on, and what you can do about it.
You’re still getting things done. You’re still showing up at work, managing everything at home and being the person other people rely on.
But it feels harder than it used to.
Your mind doesn’t switch off. Small things seem to take more out of you. You’re more impatient than you want to be. You second-guess decisions you would once have just made. And no matter how much you get done, you still feel behind.
If you’ve found yourself wondering, “What is wrong with me lately?” this is where I’d start.
Sometimes the obvious problem isn’t the whole problem.
When everything starts feeling harder, it makes sense to try to fix the things around you.
Get more organised. Clear the list. Manage your time better. Exercise more. Get more sleep. Try harder to switch off.
And sometimes those things genuinely help.
But sometimes the pressure isn’t only coming from what’s happening.
It’s also coming from what you’re making it mean.
The conversation you keep replaying. The decision you’re terrified of getting wrong. The unanswered email you’ve decided means something. The belief that you should be coping better. The constant thought that there isn't enough time.
When all of that gets bundled together, everything can start to feel much heavier than it already is.
The 5-Minute Check-In helps you separate it.
In just five minutes, you’ll take one thing that’s taking up more space in your head than you want it to and start to see:
what is actually happening
what your brain might be adding to it
how that is affecting the way you feel and respond
what is actually within your control
and what you could do differently from there.
This isn’t about positive thinking or convincing yourself everything is fine.
Sometimes the workload genuinely is unreasonable. Sometimes someone else’s behaviour isn't okay. Sometimes there are things happening in your life that you simply cannot control.
It’s about understanding what’s actually going on, so you can work out what genuinely needs to change.
Why I created it
I’m Claire Pallot, a former senior corporate executive, certified life coach and creator of The Reset Method™.
I first started doing this kind of work during one of the most difficult periods of my own life. It didn’t make everything around me easier, but it helped me separate what was actually happening from everything my brain was adding on top of it.
More than 13 years later, it’s still something I come back to, and something I now use in my work with highly capable, ambitious women who have reached a point where the way they’ve always operated isn’t working for them anymore.
You don’t need to become less ambitious, or set your life on fire, in order to start enjoying your life again.
What I Believe
You don’t need to burn out before you decide to change how you operate.
You don’t need to leave your career, or lower your ambition in order to protect your wellbeing.
And you don’t need to wait for a crisis before you start building the internal systems that support you.
High performance and wellbeing are not opposites.
When the internal foundations are right, they strengthen each other.
If this is resonating, the next step is a free initial consultation.
A 45-minute conversation, just the two of us, where we look at what’s actually happening for you and what it would feel like to change it.