783 - How to Avoid Overwhelm

Tiny Leaps, Big Changes

Gregg Clunis

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.3 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Question:

"Thoughts on what would be considered a good/efficient number of things to work on for self improvement at one time. I have a lot of things that I want to work on to improve myself ranging from drinking more water daily to learning to become a better programmer. I also know that most of what I want to work on would be considered habits, which take time to become ingrained. In addition, the human brain can only handle so many things at once. I don't want to spread out my self improvement too long by only focusing on one change until it becomes habit, but I also don't want to tackle the world all at once and become disillusioned with everything (ala New Years Resolutions). Thoughts? Anyone? Bueller?"

Advice

Start with 1 thing. It’s much easier to start that way than to worry about everything
Focus on improving your ability to improve (decision making, understanding, self-discipline)
As you improve one area of your life it will snowball into other areas
As you gain confidence in your ability to do what you say, it will become easier to take on harder and harder things

Challenge

Pick one thing to improve right now

Transcript

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0:00.0	In this episode, we talk about how to avoid overwhelm in your personal development journey.
0:08.8	Get excited because this is tiny leaves.
0:14.0	Big jamps. My name is Greg Klunis and personal development is a personal journey.
0:37.0	It's one that we each need to go through with all of the context of our own lives and apply the lessons that we learn
0:45.0	along the way to make more progress the next time. And as a result it's always
0:51.0	been difficult to really learn too much from things like a
0:55.6	podcast or a book or a coach, because without that personal context, without an understanding of the specific challenges that your life faces,
1:06.8	it's difficult to give any kind of good advice. And change is already difficult to navigate. It can be confusing to understand where to focus. It can be confusing what is too much and what isn't too much. And while taking on too much can be overwhelming moving too slow can also feel like it just isn't
1:28.0	going to work out and be difficult to stick with.
1:32.0	So what's the right balance? How do we approach changing our lives? How do we
1:36.0	approach changing our behavior at a rate that works for us, at a rate and a speed that feels like something is actually happening without getting ourselves overwhelmed.
1:49.0	Well, when we get back, we're going to talk all about this and by the end of the episode I'll share what I think
1:55.8	is the best strategy for making significant changes in your life without getting overwhelmed.
2:02.0	Stay tuned. without getting overwhelmed.
2:02.8	Stay tuned.
2:04.2	Did you know that I recently launched my own app.
2:06.5	It's called Upward.
2:07.6	And the idea is really simple.
2:09.5	Build healthy habits with an accountability partner.
2:13.0	It's straightforward.
2:14.0	You download the app, you create an account,
2:16.0	and then you select one of our trending habits,
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