Solo Episode: 12 Practical Ways to Manage Stress and Balance a Busy Life
Life with Marianna
Life with Marianna
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🗓️ 4 February 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this solo episode, Marianna is sharing 12 actionable tips to help you manage stress when life feels like a never-ending to-do list. From time-blocking and brain dumps to managing decision fatigue and creating boundaries, these small but impactful habits can make your busy schedule feel more balanced and manageable. Marianna also dives into why saying “no” can protect your time, how to build a consistent sleep routine, and the power of gratitude and decluttering your space. Whether you're juggling work, personal life, or everything in between, this episode will give you practical strategies to feel more in control and less stressed.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Mariana. I'm the co-founder of Summer Fridays and host of The Life with |
| 0:09.1 | Marianna podcast. I wanted to start doing some quicky episodes of something you might want to |
| 0:14.0 | listen to that's like 15 minutes or so. And so I asked on Instagram something that you guys |
| 0:19.0 | wanted to hear about. And somebody asked if I could talk about how to manage stress when you have so many things to do at once. And I definitely feel this because I feel like I have a never ending to do list between all the different aspects of my career and trying to balance it all. And I would say in my 20s, I definitely had no balance in my life career. |
| 0:38.9 | But I do think that that time in my 20s set me up in my 30s to be able to have a little bit |
| 0:43.7 | more control of my schedule and how I spend my time and not overcommitting myself. |
| 0:47.5 | So I wanted to share with you guys a few of the things that I do to manage stress in a very busy |
| 0:51.7 | life. The first is about time blocking and scheduling. And if you |
| 0:56.4 | are somebody who really doesn't like a schedule and you like things free flowing, maybe that works for |
| 1:00.6 | you. But I think the later I've gone in my career, the more structure I give myself, the more freedom |
| 1:06.8 | I actually feel. So instead of feeling like I'm procrastinating or rushing to get something done, |
| 1:12.1 | I really have time allocated for things and I even schedule my time that I have down or the time |
| 1:17.4 | that I'm off or my free time. And I know it doesn't sound so fun to schedule your free time, |
| 1:22.8 | but then I actually make sure all of the things I need to get done, get done in the appropriate |
| 1:27.1 | amount of time. |
| 1:28.5 | So time blocking for me has been really, really helpful. And when I've interviewed so many |
| 1:33.4 | people on the podcast, I heard from them that they do this. And just for my brain and the way |
| 1:38.2 | that things work. So I don't want to go from doing something creative to doing something admin, |
| 1:43.0 | to jumping on a call. And I just felt |
| 1:45.3 | like it was really hard for me to transition from one thing to the next. So I like to do things in |
| 1:49.9 | blocks of hours. But then I'll sit down and work for like a consistent 30 minutes, take a couple |
| 1:54.8 | minute break and then go back to something. Even when I have meetings at work, the way that my |
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