Overwhelmed? how do you cope?
Last week I had a really, really hectic Monday – blood tests in the morning, very full, busy day at work and a plan straight after work until late.
I actually considered not even going out even though I’d been looking forward to seeing my friends for nearly 2 months.
I felt totally overwhelmed and it felt like I had a huge pile on my plate (like the picture above).
So this is what I did:
- I decided to go out even though I felt like I should be working to try and catch up. Had a great evening and totally forgot about all my “problems”.
- I printed out 10 of my master to do lists and used one page for each of my projects.
- I wrote down every single little thing I had to do – phone x, send email to y, check z on website, etc, etc. Somehow seeing it all and getting it out of my head freed me.
- The next day I had another blood test so had another short day. But this time, armed with my lists, I just focussed and ploughed through those lists.
- I actually finished all those tasks in about 3 hours
and was on track again.
So you see even a time management coach also goes through periods of overwhelm and craziness 
How do you cope with overwhelm?
P.S. Check out how you can break out of overwhelm
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