You push yourself each day to get everything done. Your to-do list never seems to end; it just keeps growing. And if you stop, you might not get it all done and then what?
Thoughts repeatedly telling you that you ‘have to do’, ‘need to do’, ‘must do’ results in feelings of overwhelm, fatigue, and burnout. [...]
As people continue to be laid off and some businesses close, fear abounds and it’s been showing up in the form of negativity and hopelessness. People are struggling to stay positive as they see the world changing around them.
The changes are neither positive nor negative.
Things aren’t bad; they just are. You judge things as ‘bad’ because [...]
Most people, in fact, 95% of us, experience self-doubt. We doubt ourselves, question our own abilities, and experience uncertainty.
And because of this uncertainty and self-doubt, we seek reassurance and validation from others. We need to feel okay with ourselves so we look for acceptance from others.
While there is nothing inherently wrong with seeking validation from [...]
“I sleep very little. I’m always pressured and stressed. I feel a constant need to push myself to do more – be more. And then I take two weeks vacation with my family in the summer. It usually takes me the first week to simply calm down and relax; the second week is when I [...]
The antidote to overwhelm is to simplify. This means you need to cut back, slow down, eliminate, and outsource. “Simplify” means you need to do less.
There are several things to know about overwhelm:
1) By staying busy, you have lost control over your life. You have become addicted, if you will, to being busy.
There are several [...]
Each of us can get overwhelmed from time to time. But for some people, overwhelm is a constant. It’s just how they function in life.
Knowing yourself, being aware of your abilities and priorities, and creating an environment that nurtures your success can help to alleviate or minimize overwhelm and increase productivity and happiness.
Living without overwhelm, [...]
In a previous post on Tolerations, I introduced the concept of identifying things in your life that were substandard so that you can eliminate them in order to increase productivity as well as improve your energy, confidence, and self-esteem. In the process of eliminating tolerations, you want to become aware of things you might be [...]
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