Reduce Overwhelm With A Supportive Listener

Probably the best way to address overwhelm is to have a talk with a friendly and supportive person in your life. Ideally, there is no judgment, no criticism and no attitude from that person – just supportive listening and, if you’re lucky, some useful feedback. It’s amazing what enormous value there is in talking things […]

Reduce Overwhelm By Doing What’s In Front Of You First

A wonderfully accomplished client and I today discussed a useful strategy for dealing with overwhelm at work.  Do what’s in front of you, and put the the rest on hold for now. This approach is called compartmentalization in psychological terms: to create a way of thinking that effectively walls off some areas from others. In […]