How you know
You're getting through just as much as ever, and you've stopped checking your own work.
Something to say
“I can keep this pace or keep this standard. I can't do both, and I'd like help picking.”
It's easier to spot this afterwards than at the time. Give it a week before you decide it isn't yours.
Two ways in
One is a habit. The other is one person.
Neither is the better one. Pick whichever matches the thing that is actually bothering you.
On your own
The habit, not the incident.
Nobody can tell from outside whether you're fine, because the work keeps arriving. Slowing down is a decision you have to make out loud.
- Say the number: this is how much is on me, and this is how much I think I can do well.
- Pick the thing that gets done properly, and name what gets less because of it.
- Ask somebody to take one thing, by name. Mentioning that you're busy gets you sympathy and no change.
With somebody in mind
The same friction, one person.
Whoever's sending the work can't see the quality dropping, because the volume hasn't. From where they sit, you're fine. You're the only person holding both numbers.
- Take the one person who adds most to your list and show them the list. All of it, not just today.
- Ask them to pick: speed or care. You'll do either. You can't do both, and at the moment you're choosing for them without telling them.
One of these, not all of them. And in your own words, because ours won't sound like you.
Where this sharpens
It lands hardest with two of the five.
Not because anybody is difficult. These are just the two who reach for something different first, at the same moment.
Which one is yours
You are reading The Doer. Is that actually you?
Ten situations, about three minutes, no sign-up. It tells you which of the five you reach for first — and which version of this page is yours.
Five readings
This plays differently depending on what you reach for first.
Pick the one that sounds most like you. Reading a dimension is not a claim that you are one.