How to Deal with Overwhelm

<p>I’ve been helping clients overcome their feelings of overwhelm for years! Here are 12 tips that will help you learn how to deal with overwhelm so you can get back to being a rockstar in no time:</p><ol><li><strong>Get the thoughts out of your head and onto paper.</strong> Before you start your day, brain dump all of the things that are on your “to-do” list onto a piece of paper or into a journal. This will help you visualize all of your tasks at once and help you prioritize what needs to get done today. Oftentimes we get so bogged down with a number of small, meaningless tasks that we can either cruise through in an hour or defer to another day.</li><li><strong>Stop multitasking! </strong>We live in a society that prides itself on multitasking, but it actually doesn’t work! When you multitask you’re not getting multiple things done and saving time. Instead, you’re usually just extending the amount of time it takes to do one thing. So, I encourage you to pick one thing from your list to accomplish at a time. Once you are done with that one thing, move onto the next. Also, check out the book <a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/The-ONE-Thing-Audiobook/B00FPMTFRM?">The One Thing</a> for further reading.</li><li><strong>Acknowledge that you’re feeling overwhelmed.</strong> It’s okay to feel overwhelmed. It’s also okay to tell yourself and others that you are overwhelmed. By acknowledging your feelings, it allows you to understand and recognize the symptoms of overwhelm that you experience. This will help you recognize when you’re starting to become overwhelmed in the future so you can stop it before it becomes too heavy.</li><li><strong>Give yourself some grace.</strong> We live in a high-operating society, but that doesn’t mean you have to be go-go-go all of the time. Sit down and allow yourself time to process the tasks that need to be done today and let go of the others.</li><li><strong>Don’t get stuck.</strong> Don’t allow yourself to be paralyzed by your overwhelm. If your overwhelm feels too big and heavy, it