Have you ever felt overwhelmed with everything you need to do?
Are you like me, always feeling like you need to be productive, especially with your work?
For those looking for a few tips on how I navigate these feelings, here you go.
When I’m feeling this, I immediately acknowledge it. Then I slow everything down & drop the bar of expectation for myself & what needs to get done.
Then I simply start with tackling one thing at a time & I build from there. I also let go of the need to get everything done.
Next, I make sure I’m always doing something that fits one of my criteria of being productive.
Productivity doesn’t always need to be work related, it can slot into other categories of productivity:
🖤Educational - learning something.
🖤Creative - drawing, painting, writing.
🖤Fun - something purely for enjoyment.
🖤Purely productive - chores, vacuuming, dishes, taking out the trash, going to the post office, etc.
🖤Working - something work related.
🖤Therapeutic - some kind of self care like exercise, meditation, massage, sauna.
All I’m thinking is to just do the next indicated action that I can actually execute & then I move on to the next one.
I’ll also always make sure to journal about what’s going on & how I’m feeling. Draining my brain therapeutically of all the noise going on in my head, helps settle me down.
There are two types of people. There are those who get paralyzed when they’re feeling anxious & overwhelmed, finding it difficult to get anything done. And there are those who are disconnected from their feelings; they override & bypass their feelings while executing on their to do list.
I’m the former.
If you’re the later, & being productive despite feeling anxious is not an issue, then for you, it would best to journal, meditate & do everything you can to slow down & start to find your feelings about what’s going on with you.
When you’re feeling overwhelmed & anxious, just know that completing your to-do list is never going to solve anything other than completing your to-do list. You cannot solve an emotional issue with a physical solution.