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The Three Places Your Overwhelm Comes From (and how to take control of each)
Whenever you feel stressed, chances are a lack of control is at the core.
With an “out of control” feeling can come anxiety, frustration, confusion, upset, anger and a host of other emotions that do not serve you in the moment.
That feeling of not not having control is typically brought on by one of three things:
Possibility #1: Someone else overloads you with things to do.
An example might be that someone at your company left or was let go and, all of a sudden, your workload has doubled because you have to cover some of those responsibilities, in addition to your regular job responsibilities.
Possibility #2: You have overloaded yourself physically by saying ‘yes’ to one (or seven!) too many things.
It’s not uncommon to do this to ourselves. It happens because we want to be helpful and kind. And, sometimes, we overload ourselves because, let’s be real, we have a hard time saying ‘no.’
But when we say ‘yes’ to too many things, we lose ourselves. We often don’t realize that until it’s too late, and we’re out of energy and time for ourselves.
Possibility #3: You have overloaded yourself mentally by living in your head WAY too much.
