#466 How to focus on outcomes to reduce overwhelm

Squiggly Careers

The Squiggly Career

Management, Careers, Business

5 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Feeling overwhelmed is something most of us have experienced. Too many meetings, tasks, and requests—paired with too little time, clarity, and control—can make work feel unmanageable.

In this episode, Helen and Sarah share three practical actions to help you regain focus and reduce overwhelm.

They explore how shifting your mindset from tasks to outcomes can bring clarity, help you prioritise what truly matters, and create a greater sense of control in your work.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Helen and this is the squiggly careers podcast where every week we take a different topic to do with work and share some ideas and actions to help you navigate our squiggly careers without a bit more confidence and control. And this week we are going to be talking about how focusing on outcomes will help you to reduce
0:21.8	overwhelm.
0:22.8	And if you can hear any sort of chomping in the background is because I am joined today in
0:28.8	the Squiggly Studio with two special guests, neither of which are Sarah because she's joining
0:32.8	me virtually.
0:33.8	But in my studio I have my children's rabbits, Poppy and Cookie, who are living the life of luxury
0:39.7	after they've been to the vets. Yeah, I keep giving Sarah rabbit updates that she doesn't really want.
0:45.6	Like, they're eating, they're eating, they've come out, they've come out.
0:48.4	Well, now I know how much it costs to keep these rabbits happy. I'm like, I feel very invested
0:52.4	in making sure that they're okay.
0:58.9	If only this was being, if only this was being filmed, it would probably be quite distracting.
1:03.1	And actually what we're talking about today is very important. And I think overwhelm is something lots of people are experiencing. So hopefully we can give you some practical support and advice
1:07.2	today. So first, worth just reflecting on what contributes to overwhelm and then also
1:12.3	when specifically do you feel overwhelmed? And I think at the moment, the outside world can have a
1:18.8	really big impact on how we're feeling at work. So even if, you know, events outside of your
1:25.2	orbit of work, you know, you can't directly influence or you're not part of, you know, events outside of your orbit of work, you know, you can't directly influence or
1:28.9	you're not part of. You know, just that kind of classic thing of when you read the news and it,
1:34.3	you know, a lot of that news is hard to read or hard to take, then it's inevitable that you can't
1:40.6	separate out, you know, the rest of what you're spending time, reading,
1:44.5	watching and listening to to then how you show up at work.
1:47.7	And we definitely saw that in our team last week, you know, people kind of mentioning things
1:52.3	that, you know, we're making them feel either kind of sad or quite down.
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