Changing Your Perspective on Overwhelm

Getting to Good Enough · Jun 4, 2026 · 18m

Sometimes the hardest part of getting things done isn't the list itself—it's how the list feels.

When a project, task list, or responsibility starts to feel enormous, it's easy to assume the overwhelm is coming from the work. But often, what's driving the experience is the story, image, or feeling we've attached to it. The work may be exactly the same, while our relationship to it changes completely.

In this episode, Shannon shares a surprisingly powerful mental shift that helped her move from feeling buried under an endless pile of obligations to feeling capable of making progress. Along the…