You feel overwhelmed when you feel out of control.

This activates your threat alert system.

No matter if the danger is imagined or real,

your body's fight, flight, or freeze defense mechanisms kick in just the same.

Your nervous system releases a flood of stress hormones into your system,

which kicks up your intense anxiety.

This also reduces your serotonin, which contributes to your well-being and happiness.

This combination creates an intense feeling of helplessness and despair that is associated

with being overwhelmed.

I won't give you the long list of health elements this causes, nor explain how most escape

this despair through alcohol, drugs, and destructive habits.

Suffice it to say, it's all bad, and you got to stop this quick.

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every day.

Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

If you're late for work, you skip breakfast. You can't find your keys. Your wife is barking at you

as you head out the door because you forgot to pack Johnny's lunch again. The big presentation

you have coming up in two days haunts you. You haven't even started

preparing. Your phone is blowing up with text alerts. A major client is having a meltdown. Between the

front door and your desk, three people remind you anxiously that they're waiting on responses

from you. You sit down and see that your email is already mounting, but five team members are

already formed outside your door with got a minute requests.

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