Hello and welcome to best laid plans.

This is your host Sarah Hart Unger,

and this is your podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent.

Today we're going to talk a little bit about overwhelm,

which was inspired today because I actually gave a talk in a kind of corporate setting. It was really fun. I've been doing a little bit of

this. It started at a legal tech conference where I had a friend that was a connection. And then that

went really well. And then that led to a couple of other invitations.

And when I talk, I usually talk all about my nested goals methods, kind of a really brief overview version of Best Lead Plans Academy, but certainly shortened to fit within an hour

and not kind of like the overarching course format that I have in BLPA.

Anyway, so I did that today and somebody asked a great question. At the end of the talk, she said she loved hearing about all

of my goal setting methods, but what if you just felt overwhelmed by it all? And I really did think

that was a great question. I have an idea of how I did answer her and how I wanted to answer her, but it made me think

about the feeling of overwhelm in general, probably because I wouldn't say I'm all the way

tipped towards overwhelm right now, but it's been kind of a crazy past few weeks.

I always feel under the weeds after a week on call

because I shove everything else aside. And then I had planned some travel for that week.

So that wasn't like a normal week either. And yeah, I wouldn't say I'm overwhelmed right now,

but I certainly am having to employ some of the strategies I've had to use in the path

when I truly did feel overwhelmed. So some of the strategies I've had to use in the path when I truly did feel overwhelmed.

So thinking about it, I've had various periods of my life where I can say with certainty that I felt overwhelmed.

First of all, in college, whenever I had multiple things do it once and found certain material very challenging, I felt overwhelmed.

I wasn't always the best about

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