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Stop Feeling Overwhelmed

Start with a clean plate
If your plate were completely clean, with limited space, what would you put on it today? Once you’ve figured that o...
How to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed (by Everything on Your Plate)
Learn to say “NO”
Feeling like you’re doing busywork is often the result of saying yes too often. We have to let go of this ...
How to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed (by Everything on Your Plate)
3 Core things
Focus on no more than three core things every day. Wake up every morning and figure out what the most import...
How to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed (by Everything on Your Plate)
Overcome the tyranny of the present
People who are always "in the moment" don't look ahead and make plans to pursue their goals and dreams. There...
10 Ways to Stop Feeling Overworked and Overwhelmed
Eliminate "nice to do" tasks
Ask, Is this really necessary? Do you need to have that meeting? In many cases, you don't, but you do anyway simply b...
10 Ways to Stop Feeling Overworked and Overwhelmed
Reprioritize
Sometimes the answer to "Is this really necessary?" is "Yes, but not right now." What is the most important thing you...
10 Ways to Stop Feeling Overworked and Overwhelmed
Understand your operating rhythm
We all work differently. Some like to hit the ground running. Others like to start the day by reflecting, meditating,...
10 Ways to Stop Feeling Overworked and Overwhelmed
The important tasks come first
What are your priorities for the month? The week? Today? Determine what they are and do those things first. Why wou...
10 Ways to Stop Feeling Overworked and Overwhelmed
Time for unconscious thought
Research shows people tend to make their best decisions when they have an opportunity to review the data and facts an...
10 Ways to Stop Feeling Overworked and Overwhelmed
Set boundaries
No one can or should be on 24/7. Yet you probably feel you are--because you allow yourself to be. Set some boundari...
10 Ways to Stop Feeling Overworked and Overwhelmed
Be strategic with "yes" and "no"
Sometimes you simply need to say no. Other times you can say, "No, unless..." and add stipulations. The same is true...
10 Ways to Stop Feeling Overworked and Overwhelmed
Tame your distractions
Most people are distracted over 30 times an hour: phone calls, emails, texts, office drop-ins... The list is endless....
10 Ways to Stop Feeling Overworked and Overwhelmed
Remember your impact
If you're a leader you naturally impact other people. You set a direction. You set a standard. Be a great role mode...
10 Ways to Stop Feeling Overworked and Overwhelmed
Stop
Have the courage to stop what you're doing. Give yourself the space to slow down, so you can see the bigger pict...
How To Stop Feeling Overwhelmed (For Good)
Let go of some things
Lin Yutang said, "besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The ...
How To Stop Feeling Overwhelmed (For Good)
Commit to less
Having too much to do often has to do with unrealistic goal setting and over-committing your time and energy. ...
How To Stop Feeling Overwhelmed (For Good)
Say no
People who are overwhelmed spread their energy too thinly. When you feel scattered and pulled apart in a lot ...
How To Stop Feeling Overwhelmed (For Good)
Know your priorities
Look at the bigger picture of your life, and how you really want to spend your precious time and energy. Taking time ...
How To Stop Feeling Overwhelmed (For Good)
Simplify
Being overwhelmed goes hand in hand with having a mind full of complicated thoughts and chaos. David Allen reminds us...
How To Stop Feeling Overwhelmed (For Good)
Limit yourself
Be willing to focus on just a few things at a time. Put limits on certain activities that aren't important. B...
How To Stop Feeling Overwhelmed (For Good)
Develop self-esteem
Oftentimes, an underlying poor self-esteem is the culprit of over-doing and over-committing. Instead of understanding...
How To Stop Feeling Overwhelmed (For Good)
Tune in to what you want to feel
Sometimes we get so lost in feeling stressed and overwhelmed, we forget about what we really do want to feel and expe...
How To Stop Feeling Overwhelmed (For Good)
Re-imagine a new schedule
Imagine a new lifestyle, from scratch. If you made your health and happiness a priority, what would your day look lik...
How To Stop Feeling Overwhelmed (For Good)
When you’re feeling overwhelmed
You have so many things going on, that it is hard to concentrate on any one of them, and so you get less productive. ...
How to stop feeling so overwhelmed at work
Reduce your energy
If you’re actively feeling overwhelmed you first need to calm down . Close your eyes for a minute. Focus on brea...
How to stop feeling so overwhelmed at work
Focus
Start by finding a high-priority task that you feel you can complete in a short period of time. Clear the decks for a...
How to stop feeling so overwhelmed at work
Offload, if necessary
If you find that you’re being given new things to do at a faster rate than you can possibly complete them, then it is...
How to stop feeling so overwhelmed at work
Limit the time spent reading news
“Headline anxiety” is a growing problem. One way to reduce the impact of the non-stop news cycle is to use scr...
Five ways to stop feeling overwhelmed by the news
Turn off push notifications
If the urge to scroll is too strong to resist, then at least turning off your push notifications from news apps can s...
Five ways to stop feeling overwhelmed by the news
Read the good news
If we focus on the bigger picture, such as the proportion of people living in extreme poverty halving in the past 20 ...
Five ways to stop feeling overwhelmed by the news
Prioritize trusted news sources
It is now well known that social media can magnify the significance of fake news. Find your news instead, then...
Five ways to stop feeling overwhelmed by the news
No news before bed
Research has shown that screen use before bed resets our internal clock and disrupts sleep, so reading the news onscr...
Five ways to stop feeling overwhelmed by the news