How do I stop the overwhelm? “Live in day-tight compartments (one grain of sand, one task at a time)” – Dale Carnegie

Here’s a five ideas to help with the stress, worry and anxiety around all that “has” to be done!

Do one thing and only one thing
This means focus on one thing at a time and get it done. You will get that task completed quicker if you just do it. Don’t let other thoughts that enter your mind led you astray. Multi tasking isn’t your friend. Fully commit to the one thing, the one task and get it complete.

Focus the mind
Be present on the now. Many times during a day our mind is thinking about the past or in the future. Once you notice you’re doing this you’ll be amazed how much time you hang out there! We can learn from the past and look forward to the future. However…spending excess time there will plummet your energy. Stop that and train the mind to focus!

Continue reading ➞ Help when dealing with overhelm

You do have enough time! Really? I’m not buying it Liz! Well you may think differently after I tell you about the 168 hours in your week! In fact you can even look at the 7 days and see the spare hours in it.

A number of years ago a Forbes article that stripped the week down into the hours left to get things done really help me re-frame and stop saying “there’s not enough time! 168 hours isn’t a small number but let’s figure out how many hours we truly have.

Continue reading ➞ You do have enough time! Huh?

When I was 19 my tutor asked the class how we felt about stress. My answer surprised many – stress was exciting. I remember exactly where I was sitting and was confused when the class summed up stress as an anxious feeling and gave me weird looks for my answer. The younger me related to stress as feeling alive.

As I’ve got older I don’t always see stress as exciting but I do thrive on a high level of having to get things done and get them done now. No surprise one of my favorite sayings is Just Do It!

It was a Ted Talk that made me recall this memory. I will link to that talk at the end of this blog post. The general feeling is that stress makes you sick and stress is not good for us.

Continue reading ➞ Can Stress be good?