048: Fight Overwhelm: How To Narrow In On Your Ideas
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Today, I'm talking about the reasons why we allow ourselves to feel overwhelmed by our ideas, and how that can keep us from working toward our goals. I'll share solutions for your overwhelm and tips for narrowing in on your ideas. We'll discuss the importance of being a beginner and how to embrace the whitespace in life so you can actually work more effectively.
What's In This Episode:
• How to stop your feelings of overwhelm and push through barriers that are holding you back.
• The top six reasons why we allow ourselves to feel overwhelmed with our ideas.
• Solutions for overwhelm and how to narrow in on your ideas and tasks so you can accomplish your goal.
• Why being a beginner is a good thing that you can use to your advantage.
• Ways to embrace the silence and whitespace in your life that will allow you to work more effectively.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox from Inquell Press, a podcast focused on finding true fulfillment and happiness through the power of productivity. |
| 0:09.2 | To get your free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply sign up at inkwellpress.com slash podcast. |
| 0:16.3 | And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. |
| 0:19.1 | Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, owner of Inquwell Press, and this is episode 48. |
| 0:28.9 | Today, we are talking about fighting overwhelm and how to really narrow in on an idea. |
| 0:35.4 | But before we get started, I want to give a quick shout out to today's sponsor, |
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| 0:46.5 | FreshBooks is the simplest way to be more productive, get organized, and most importantly, |
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| 0:55.9 | I'll be sharing more on that later in the episode. |
| 0:59.3 | One of the things I hear from a lot of creative people is they have too many ideas. |
| 1:05.4 | I understand that feeling. |
| 1:07.0 | I often say that I have 17 ideas in each of those ideas has about 35 variations. |
| 1:13.7 | I often joke with John that one of his main jobs is just saying one word, narrow. |
| 1:20.8 | And the good news is I ultimately am able to filter through my ideas and make sure it truly fits my mission. |
| 1:29.2 | That helps me tremendously. |
| 1:31.7 | But there are a lot of things that can make us feel overwhelmed. |
| 1:36.2 | I think the word overwhelmed is the word I hear most often when I hear people talking about their dreams and their goals. |
| 1:46.9 | You've heard me say this time and time again, but overwhelm isn't having too much to do. It's not knowing where to start. When you begin to see |
| 1:55.0 | where to start, it makes it so much easier to not feel so suffocated by your own ideas. So how do we stop and how can we |
| 2:05.6 | push through those barriers? There are several reasons why most people allow themselves to feel |
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