stress management: What’s On Your Plate and Why Are You Doing It?
- 09/21/09 09:01 AM
When you have sensitized yourself to feelings of overwhelm and stress, you learn to recognize the emotion when it starts. It is at this moment that you have the power to choose your response. You can allow the emotions to overwhelm you OR you can take charge and choose a different response. Breathe. Take in some air. It's time to determine what is causing the overwhelm. There are two sources: external, meaning there's too much on your plate, and internal, meaning your thought processes and your own emotional state are taking you for a ride. Since you can control your internal … (2 comments)
stress management: Give Yourself the Power of Choice
- 07/04/09 08:59 AM
You push yourself each day to get everything done. Your to-do list never seems to end; it just keeps growing. And if you stop, you might not get it all done and then what? Thoughts repeatedly telling you that you ‘have to do', ‘need to do', ‘must do' results in feelings of overwhelm, fatigue, and burnout. When you believe that you have no choice but that everything you do is a chore, you drain your energy. Everything is a burden. It's heavy and you keep pushing feeling as though you have no choice because you ‘have to'. You're tired. Heck, I'm tired … (0 comments)
stress management: Eliminating Overwhelm Part III: Are You Addicted to Busy?
- 05/26/09 03:29 AM
"I sleep very little. I'm always pressured and stressed. I feel a constant need to push myself to do more - be more. And then I take two weeks vacation with my family in the summer. It usually takes me the first week to simply calm down and relax; the second week is when I actually get to enjoy myself. I know I'm doing this to myself. I just don't know any other way to live." This constant state of "up" is a cause for concern. You could be an adrenaline junkie. This is a person who craves the 'high' from … (0 comments)
stress management: Eliminating Overwhelm Part II: Simplify Your Life
- 05/19/09 03:56 AM
The antidote to overwhelm is to simplify. This means you need to cut back, slow down, eliminate, and outsource. "Simplify" means you need to do less. There are several things to know about overwhelm: 1) By staying busy, you have lost control over your life. You have become addicted, if you will, to being busy. There are several reasons for this. For one, your mind or ego needs something to do so it creates stuff or situations to keep in busy. You may have been taught that success is hard work so you look for ways to be busy to create … (1 comments)
stress management: Eliminating Overwhelm Part I: Make the Commitment
- 05/12/09 07:17 AM
Each of us can get overwhelmed from time to time. But for some people, overwhelm is a constant. It's just how they function in life. Knowing yourself, being aware of your abilities and priorities, and creating an environment that nurtures your success can help to alleviate or minimize overwhelm and increase productivity and happiness. Living without overwhelm, or at least minimizing it in your life, requires that you adjust and get comfortable with moving at a different pace. This may not be easy when you are accustomed to approaching life from a "gotta be busy" or "gotta keep moving" mentality. It … (1 comments)
When you have sensitized yourself to feelings of overwhelm and stress, you learn to recognize the emotion when it starts. It is at this moment that you have the power to choose your response. You can allow the emotions to overwhelm you OR you can take charge and choose a different response.;)
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