If you have a lot of tasks and personal things going on in your life … what makes it feel overwhelming? A lot of things isn’t inherently overwhelming — it’s how we view those things.
If you view each task as a potential “dropped ball” or way to let people down or fail … then a bunch of those potential failures and dangers will feel overwhelming. If every email and message has the potential to have people frustrated with you for not replying, then a long list of unanswered emails/messages will feel overwhelming.
If every decision you need to make has the potential to be a mistake, then you’ll feel overwhelmed by a lot of decisions that all might turn out to be mistakes.
The potential to let people down or fail = danger
The potential to make wrong decisions = danger
So you can see that a lot of tasks and decisions, with the view that tasks and decisions are potential danger … will feel overwhelming.
If tasks and decisions feel like a minefield of danger … How can we shift our view so that they don’t feel overwhelming?