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.