Getting unstuck with work

Just caught up with another great coaching call about getting unstuck and went through the three questions. The circumstance is that I’m stuck with how to respond to work situation in one weeks time there is a big workshop taking place involving a lot of policy makers and researchers I am supposed to be supporting the design of the workshop providing gender expertise. However, the partnership involved in organizing the event are not responding to my email asking where I can provide support. This is an ongoing complicated project with a lot of dynamics within it. I find myself questioning why they don’t respond to the emails and also questioning myself worth is with questions of and we’re not good enough. Is that why they’re not responding to my emails so where am I stuck? I’m stuck because there are deliverables that I’m supposed to achieve in the next two weeks and it appears that the partners do not want me or not interested in these deliverables. I am unsure on how to proceed. Why am I stuck because part of me feels I should make an effort because that’s my job. That’s in the task that I’m supposed to deliver another part of me feels that I’m stuck and not pushing it because I feel they are not serious about the value of this work and they’ve only brought me in as the typical gender tick box so why bother pushing for it the other part of me is not pushing because I already have a lot of work on my plate and actually I don’t really feel motivated or actually I just don’t wanna do it but a big part of me feels that I should so I feel lot of self judgment that I should be making an effort because that’s my job. What will help? Getting coaching on this is my solution to this. I have a few thoughts one I could send an email tomorrow repeating that I am available next week to help could they indicate which times we need to meet up and reiterate that I’m there to provide support. I could also send a separate email to the senior management to have a longer discussion about my work to this point and emphasize why it’s important in the last event. I could ask my colleague for advise who I’m working on this with however I don’t actually trust him or like him so I don’t really think I’m gonna get much help from him anyway so I still feel a bit stuck the truth is I already have a lot of work on my plate next week and deep down I’m afraid if I send another email saying where do you need help that they stop bombarding me with request that’s one reason and second part of me is worried that if I don’t make a sound that by the end of the month, they’ll say I didn’t do a good job and didn’t meet the deliverables so that’s why I need to make some noise now so that other requests don’t come up .
Would love to know what you think .thank you

 

 

Answer:

Action brings clarity.

It sounds like your brain is stuck in a loop. It is coming up with all the reasons you can’t do this. This is what brains do. They are so good at it!

You’ve already got some great ideas. Pick one and move forward. Take action. No matter what happens, you’ll have more information to help you.

What is your one next step? When will you accomplish it by?