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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is about how to cope with being overwhelmed.

By recognizing the exact nature of your overwhelming situation, you can take steps to make life feel more in control.

Today's tip comes from Bill Burnett and Dave Evans' new book, Designing Your Work Life.

The follow-up to design your life,

this book teaches how to use design principles

to improve your time at the office.

We've probably all been in bad jobs,

but in many cases, Burnett and Evans right, people find themselves

in jobs that they generally like. It's just that circumstances are stressful. These stressful

circumstances come in different flavors, which Burnett and Evans call the

Hydra overwhelm, the happy overwhelm, and the hyper overwhelmoverwhelme.

They required different steps to mitigate.

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