6/27/2007
Overwhelmed - What to do?
What do you do when you're overwhelmed? Seriously, I want to know. Please click on "Comment" below and tell me. I welcome any and all suggestions. I've always had a sort of overload switch that just shuts me down when I get. . .well, overloaded. It's a very self-defeating mechanism and if I knew where it was, I'd remove it. But it's buried pretty deep inside me.
If my house gets too messy, I can't make myself clean it. If I get too financially behind, I want to quit trying. If I'm running behind on a deadline, I can't seem to find the words to finish the story. I hate this about myself. I've tried to fight against it by praying, by breaking the job down into bite-size chunks. But so far, nothing seems to work.
So I thought I'd open the floor up to suggestions. What do you do to get over the feeling of being buried alive by an undone job?
COMMENTS:
If my house gets too messy, I can't make myself clean it. If I get too financially behind, I want to quit trying. If I'm running behind on a deadline, I can't seem to find the words to finish the story. I hate this about myself. I've tried to fight against it by praying, by breaking the job down into bite-size chunks. But so far, nothing seems to work.
So I thought I'd open the floor up to suggestions. What do you do to get over the feeling of being buried alive by an undone job?
COMMENTS:
This may sound very elementary, but I remove myself from the situation (messy house, office with the ever-growing inbox, etc.) and make a list of what needs to be done and the order in which I need to do it. Then I go back and tackle it. As each item on my list gets done, I cross it off. At the end of the day, even if my situation isn't completely resolved, I can look at my list and realize that I have made progress. That always make me feel better and motivates me to keep going until the daunting task is finished.
Thanks, PoP, for that great idea. I'm heading off for a bit with my notebook and inkpen to try and make order from chaos. (Oops. That made me sound like a Borg. Resistance is futile.) Thanks again for the comment and the suggestion.
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