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Overwhelm…Begin where you are. · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the good morning from the chicken coop, podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and master mindset.
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  Coach filled with inspiration, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places for chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey, good morning.
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  From the chicken coop, my friends.
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  So today we are talking about overwhelm and we are talking
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  about it from the construct of beginning where you are.
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  So, a lot of times what ends up happening in the world of
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  overwhelm, is its created by our need to see.
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  Just how much crap we have hanging over us?
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  Happens. Constantly, in fact, just this
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  weekend, I was having a conversation with a friend.
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  We were sitting at the beach and we Talking about, you know, the
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  fact that he just had so much to do and it was overwhelming.
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  And then what happens from that aspect and how you go through it
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  and it was just a casual conversation, but it made me
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  realize how much of that is still prevalent in every single
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  one of our Lives daily. And how myself included, you
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  know, this time of year always comes down to crunch time.
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  I also have taken on new projects And it is one of those
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  oh, no moments. Right?
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  You what? We all have the oh no moments in
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  overwhelm and we say, you know, I don't know how I'm going to
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  get this done. I don't know, there aren't
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  enough hours in a day. We start the language pattern
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  that doesn't help us. Which, you know, we've talked
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  about that before and we will always talk about that because
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  it's where it all kind of goes to hell in a handbasket quickly
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  when we start with a language pattern, that's ridiculous.
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  And not helpful and here we are, you know, at the Relaxing and
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  his brain can't shut off because he's in a state of talking about
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  the fact that there's so much to do.
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  So his brain is looping it just it was such a gift for me
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  because it made me really think about the fact that.
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  Wow, I forget sometimes even as much as I know, I forget how
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  much of that overwhelm is still out there.
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  So I wanted to talk to you about it today from the constructive
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  saying okay well Well, what do you do when you're in that
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  state? You know, you know, you're in
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  that state clearly you know, you're in the state.
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  What do you do? What happens at that point?
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  Well from from the perspective of breaking down the process and
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  giving you concrete information, you have to kind of go to the
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  place of I have to begin where I am.
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  Wherever I am meaning, If I know I have all these projects and
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  their pending and I can't leverage them out to people and
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  I can't do certain things and I know I have a schedule that has
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  to be kept or I know I have all these things that have to be
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  done very much. Like I'm with one of the things
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  I'm working on that is something that is very much up against it,
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  there's no one else. I can leverage it to it has to
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  be me and I have to have it done by a certain date.
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  So I know I have to begin where I am with it mean.
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  I can't try to foresee the future and figure out well, when
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  I get this done that, I can go to this.
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  Or when I finish this aspect, then I can jump to this another
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  other project because the moment you start to do that.
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  The moment you start to what's called future pace.
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  And start to see that there are more things on your list is the
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  moment. You start to have a mental
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  breakdown over it because there's no other way to do that,
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  much work. And in the moment, Where you are
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  and you haven't begun anything. It seems absolutely daunting
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  overwhelming. It seems ridiculous and then you
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  just sit and you don't do anything in the worst thing of
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  all happens. You go into what's called
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  analysis paralysis, and then you just sit there and go on how I'm
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  going to get all this done. I don't know how, I don't know
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  how, I don't know how. And then you just all of a
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  sudden, find yourself vacuuming or you find yourself going to
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  the bar and getting a beer or you find yourself, you know,
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  taking off and doing nothing, whatever your nothing maybe.
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  It happens. And it's the worst part of the
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  the situation because you know, you need to do something but
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  because you don't know the thing you need to do the most or you
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  can't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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  So to speak, you end up doing nothing.
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  So how do we break this pattern? How do we break it so that you
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  can start to do it? Well, the very first thing is
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  you have to get everything out of your head as much as you can.
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  So to me doing a brain dump, Putting it all on paper, not a
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  to-do list, just a brain dump of everything.
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  Just get everything onto paper sit down, and legitimately just
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  write it all down. All the overwhelming, thoughts,
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  all the stuff that, you know, you need to do as much as the
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  negative thoughts, put it all on a piece of paper.
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  Get that brain dump out. So you can look at it because
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  once I'm paper, then you can actually say to yourself.
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  This is ridiculous. I don't need to think of it this
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  way. You may even see at that point,
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  like I did. I did this a couple weeks ago
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  that I could leverage some of the stuff that I needed to have
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  done and had my daughter handle a chunk of it and say, okay can
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  you just do this now? What were they?
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  Simple tasks. Yes.
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  But they were simple tasks. That would have taken up two
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  hours of my time. Instead, I paid her to do it and
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  it's two hours of her time so it's it takes it off of that and
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  you feel like you're making progress and that's the
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  important piece. If progress is being made, then
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  you can feel good. You can start to feel like
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  you've put yourself in a position where you're headed in
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  the right direction at least. So first things first, get it on
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  paper. Once it's all on paper then you
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  can make the decision to sit there and say okay what are
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  these things that I know I can Chunk in order.
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  I think we are so you know accustomed to just having to
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  think we have to do everything in the moment that we think of
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  it. That that's a big piece of
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  forgetting that things can go in order.
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  So once Have it on paper. Step two is chunk like items
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  chunk the this the things together that need to be
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  together. So if you've got three or four
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  different projects, like this person was talking about, you
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  make chunks for each of those projects so you can see them.
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  And then once you have those chunks all done, then you can
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  see do any of these go together. Are any of these capable of
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  having like items that I can do all at once.
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  So in other words, if project a Has a bunch of paperwork that
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  needs to be done in sorting and project.
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  C has a bunch of paperwork, done that needs to be sorted.
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  Then, those are considered like items.
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  And can I somehow parlay those together?
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  Put them together so that I can get them done at the same time
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  and then I have two chunks of one project.
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  Now you might not be able to and that's okay because part C is
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  not necessarily worrying about that but you know, it's just
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  going to the place of saying. Okay, now I'm going to put these
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  in a time frame order. I'm going to say of these all
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  these things, all these these three or four chunks, you may
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  only have one chunk but it's got 17 things in it to do and that's
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  fine but you put them in time order.
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  And you say, okay, what's the thing I'm going to focus on
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  first that needs to be taken care of first.
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  It has a sense of urgency to it and you sequentially go down and
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  you order them. Now, this sounds so fundamental
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  but you'd be surprised how in your head that's not happening.
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  So don't forget to do these three steps because We'll break
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  the pattern and that's all we're looking for at this point is to
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  break the pattern. So remember, go off today, look
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  for that and focus yourself on the fact that overwhelm just
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  really comes down to saying stop and I'm going to begin where I
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  am. And that's what the most
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  important thing is taking a deep breath.
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  Begin, where you are put it on paper and just Chill out.
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  Hopefully this is helpful to you and I will see you guys
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  tomorrow. Have a blessed day.
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  Bye.