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Why We Feel Overwhelmed
We’re overwhelmed by all the things we have on our plates, all the interruptions and messages and emails, all the things online and on social media, all the news, and chaos of the world, and all the things going on in our relationships. It’s a lot! We can celebrate the abundance of our lives, but often we bemoan it.
The problem isn’t the abundance, but our fear and anxiety about all of it. Actually, for most of us, the fear is that we’ll let people down. We’ll drop one of the many balls we have in the air and let people down, or worse yet, we’ll drop them all and we’ll be exposed as inadequate!
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The Simplicity Practice
- Soothing the Fear: The first practice is simply noticing your fear and anxiety in all of the above situations, and soothing them. Can you notice how it feels in your body?
- One Breath at a Time: take one thing from the Huge Pile and focus completely o...
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Fears That Drive Our Overwhelm
We often have too many commitments. We say Yes to too many things, partly out of optimism, but also because we are uncomfortable saying No to people.
When your boss, spouse, child or parent asks you to do something, there is an expectation that you’ll say Yes. The ide...
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We Prefer Order And Stability
There’s a big part of us that doesn’t like chaos: we want order and simplicity.
- When we feel overwhelmed, we might beat ourselves up and try to look for a system to get things under control.
- When plans don’t go how we hoped they would
Why it’s hard to ignore urgent tasks
A few explanations as to why it’s so hard to reject urgent tasks:
- The completion bias. Our brains crave the reward we get from checking off small to-dos from our list.
- Tunnel vision: When we get overwhelmed by the things we have to do, we ch...
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