20. How To Be Awesome At Not Being Overwhelmed

How To Be Awesome At Everything

Lindsay Dickhout

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4.6 • 621 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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So what is overwhelm?

As you go through life, your brain fills up with information… it’s just like a full brain. You check your email, you check your texts, you talk to your kids, you have work meetings, theres a pipe leak in the house, someone is irritated with you… and before you know it … your brain is FULL and you’re overwhelmed!

SO what do you do when you’ve hit OVERWHELM?

That in the moment sense that you can’t handle it all.

There are 2 types of overwhelm that happen in my life and I think most peoples lives…

That moment when there is just SO Much going on… you’re in a hurry… this is when I give myself a pep talk
Then, when it’s not like I’m in a hurry to get somewhere… I do a brain dump!!

So you have to do a BRAIN DUMP so you have an empty brain so you can focus again.

So this is what I do!

I dump everything on a piece of paper- not in notes, not on computer- on paper!

Write it ALLLL down… whats bothering you is now on paper. THEN, I go through all do all the things that can be done in under 5 minutes… send a text, write an email to solve.

THEN I highlight the 3 most important things. The rest is going to have to wait- or some might have to be eliminated!

And I focus on getting these 3 things done. I have a clear head so I can focus on these things and I’m not trying to do EVERYTHING so I actually accomplish NOTHING!

Then we get into how to avoid overwhelm!

I really think you have to plan ahead and start your day organized!!

Begin your day knowing how your day is going to go and have your day already set the night before.

Even doing all of this… sometimes it just happens… so what do you do when it does?

Rather than getting frazzled… I tell myself… YOU CAN HANDLE THIS! THIS IS NOT GOING TO BREAK YOU!

I am always working to master my own mind. YOU get to choose the energy that you FEEL and BRING into moments. You choose to generate your emotional energy.

The more that you are the person that stands SOLID when these moments happen the stronger you become. You start to respect yourself more and you have more confidence when tell yourself I GOT THIS and you believe yourself!!

Thanks for listening! And cheers… to knowing that whatever the day throws your way…You’re awesome and YOU GOT THIS!

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0:00.0	Feeling overwhelmed is a natural part of life sometimes, but as our lives get busier and we have more
0:04.8	technology in front of us, it's so easy for it all to be just too much. I started researching
0:10.1	overwhelm when I felt like I was getting overwhelmed more than I used to. And what I found out was so
0:15.4	fascinating and when I applied it to my life, it really worked. So I wanted to share it with you guys.
0:21.9	I'm going to talk about what to do in that moment when you feel like you can't handle it all, the pep talk you need to
0:26.9	give yourself as it's happening, and the practical things you need to do to work through it,
0:31.4	what you need to do ahead of time to try to prevent overwhelm and how to combat it when it happens.
0:36.9	This way I wake up organized and I have a plan for how the day is going to go and I've done
0:40.7	things ahead of time.
0:41.4	So if it's one of those days that everything goes sideways, I can totally handle it.
0:45.9	Join me today as we go through the different types of overwhelm and how to never be in a
0:50.1	situation where you're frazzled and you lose it.
0:53.3	Let's go.
0:54.0	You're listening to the How to
0:55.8	Be Awesome at Everything podcast where we're obsessed with life hacks that make your life more
1:01.8	awesome. Your host, Lindsay Dick Hout, is an entrepreneur and business owner, a mom and wife,
1:07.7	and someone who wants to do things over the top at all times. This concept started
1:12.6	as a collection of things Lindsay has learned that she was documenting to give to her kids one day,
1:17.3	and now it's a podcast. Join us on this journey where we talk about how to be awesome at everything
1:22.8	we do. Here's Lindsay. Getting right into it today. Overwhelm is something we want to fight because
1:29.7	it's not good for us. Plus, it doesn't help anything. You freeze, and so you don't get
1:35.2	anything done. And it creates anxiety, and you can't focus, and you can't execute. So what is
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