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The Mindset Shift

What if your list of tasks, and your pile of daily decisions … felt like a playground? Or an adventure?

You could imagine yourself going into a giant playground with so many different toys and games to play with. This could be your task list and inbox.

What if you could see every single task as an opportunity — to learn, to grow, to serve? Then it’s a pile of gifts.

Opportunity and play, instead of danger. How would it feel if you viewed your life like that?

This is an example of a mindset shift that can transform how you experience your life. You might find others that light you up even more!

Mindset Creates Overwhelm

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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?

Mindset Shift to Deal with Overwhelm

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In recent weeks, almost every coaching client I’ve been working with has been feeling one big thing: overwhelm.

It seems almost universal: people can’t seem to deal with the big things in their lives because they’re feeling too overwhelmed. They can’t take on their more meaningful projects, because there’s just too much.

You can deal with overwhelm in a few different ways:

Reduce the number of things you do. Eliminate, simplify, reschedule, create space.
Be super productive, and crank out a bunch of things.
Shut down, throw your hands in the air in resignation, and go watch some TV.
Prioritize, and put less important things on hold.
Focus on one thing at a time, and don’t worry about everything else for now.

My favorite tools are often the last two — prioritize, and give my full focus to one thing at a time.

But I’ll tell you that none of these really addresses the root problem of overwhelm — and that’s your mindset.

Let’s look at how our mindset creates overwhelm, and how we can shift that so that we feel more delight, fun, joy as we take on life’s wonderful challenges.

Why We Have Compulsive Habits

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We’re not idiots — we don’t do unhelpful things with the intent to harm ourselves, for the most part. We do them because the unhelpful habit is meeting some need.

The need might be something like:

I’m bored and want a dopamine hit
I feel bad about myself and want to do something pleasurable to take my mind off it
I feel awkward in social situations and need a distraction
I’m stressed and need a coping mechanism

You can see that these reasons are usually coping with something uncomfortable or stressful.

This is important to understand, because if you just stop doing the compulsive habit, you have removed your coping mechanism without finding another way to meet your need.

What can you do to replace the compulsive habit, so that you can still meet your need? For quitting smoking, I tried meditation, running, pushups, journaling, massaging my shoulders, breathing, talking to people. You might try these or other ideas and see what helps you.