The 5 Worst Things To Do When You’re Overwhelmed 1. Pick any one minute and relatively unimportant detail of any one minute and relatively unimportant task and focus on it with laser intensity as if your entire business depended on getting it perfect. Spend hours on this tiny, unimportant task, so that by the time you come up for air, you’re still overwhelmed but now have several hours less with which to work. 2. Buy another ebook or ecourse that you convince yourself holds the solution to your problems–overwhelm and everything else. Unless you drop everything else to read (and implement) that book or course immediately–and none of us do that, let’s be honest–it just gets added to your list of Things That Need My Attention And Which Overwhelm Me. Consumer Urge: 1, Productive Steps: 0. 3. Play another round of Bejeweled, Farmville or any other digital game that allows you to click your mouse a lot and thereby simulate the sounds and motions of productivity without the pesky side effect of, you know, actually accomplishing anything. 4. Set up a new to-do application under the guise of solving your overwhelm issue once and for all, and proceed to spend a few hours frittering with it instead of doing anything on your to-do list. 5. Commit to additional projects, tasks or clients without resolving how you’re going to deal with your current overwhelm, nevermind the additional overwhelm from the additional project, task or client. Play ostrich and assume that if you avoid confronting your overwhelm, eventually it will just stop existing.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 11:06:16 +0000
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