EP174 Eight ways to move out of overwhelm when everything feels exhausting
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
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🗓️ 15 September 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
What happens when even looking at your to-do list makes you want to shut down? How do you get yourself re-energized when basic adulting feels like too much?
I've found it empowering to have a menu of choices — or a toolbox — I can go to when I experience those feelings. It's a collection of strategies I can pick from which have worked in the past, so I can choose whichever one feels easiest to me at the time.
In this episode, I'm sharing 8 approaches that work for me:
- Give yourself permission to stop doing and thinking
- Choose self-comfort or self-care
- Get out of your head and regain perspective
- Tap into your vision, legacy, and long term goals
- Dump the stress by planning and batching tasks
- Eliminate tasks and go back to basics
- Ease your way into productivity mode with quick wins
- Tackle the task that's creating the most anxiety
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 174 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your |
| 0:06.4 | host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the |
| 0:11.8 | minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the |
| 0:14.8 | the mind and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:16.4 | Today I'm going to share eight ways to move out of that overwhelmed state |
| 0:20.3 | when everything feels exhausting. Visit truth for teachers. |
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| 1:00.0 | Today we're talking about those moments when you look at your to-do list and you feel like |
| 1:06.9 | you just can't do anything on there because you're so exhausted. We're talking about those days when just basic adulting feels like too much, |
| 1:16.1 | when you can't get motivated because everything feels hard and there's so many things that need |
| 1:20.8 | to happen that you wouldn't know where to begin even if you had the |
| 1:23.7 | energy to try. |
| 1:26.0 | I found that empowering to have a menu of choices, like a toolbox, that I can go to when I |
| 1:31.1 | experience those feelings. |
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