8 Important Things to Remember When
You Are Feeling Overwhelmed
Feeling overwhelmed is a natural part of
life. Everyone feels overwhelmed by expectations, responsibilities and lacking
of time at work, in relationships and other aspects of life once in a while.
But dwelling on that feeling is dangerous.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed or stuck with
more than you can handle, here are 8 things to keep in mind to help you get
through it.
1.
Humans have always had the same problems.
You’re not alone. People have struggled with
the same problems for years.
Everyday, millions of people conquer
overwhelming feelings and come out happy and alive on the other side.
Humans are built to overcome and succeed. We
are not built to fail.
Feeling overwhelmed is a natural part of
life, but dwelling on that feeling is dangerous. You have to believe you can
overcome.
2.
It’s just a breakdown of your thoughts, not a breakdown of your actual life.
Our minds are powerful things. In the
book, As a Man Thinketh, James Allen says:
“As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to
think, so he remains.”
We have the power to control our thoughts,
and as a result, control who we are.
When you’re feeling overwhelmed, your life
isn’t falling apart—your thoughts are.
Take a minute to find and clean out all your
self-deprecating, negative thoughts. As you do this, you will find yourself
feeling refreshed and invigorated with renewed energy to take on the world.
Don’t believe it? Try it.
3.
Things change pretty quickly when you start doing something.
Maybe you’re feeling overwhelmed with a
project at work and don’t think you have the energy or time to finish it. You
start letting yourself play out every negative scenario resulting from a failed
project.
Stop right there!
Sitting on the couch, dwelling on these
thoughts isn’t going to make anything better. In fact, it usually makes things
worse.
Things seem to fall in place as you chip away
at a project and come to realize it wasn’t as bad as you thought.
4.
You’ve felt this way before.
Think about the last time you felt
overwhelmed. How did you overcome it? Was it really as bad as you thought?
If you don’t learn from past experiences,
you’ll find yourself suffering from the same problems over and over.
Successful people are the ones who understand
that every experience, good or bad, is valuable.
Go to a private place and take as long as you
need to remember previous times in your life you felt this way and how you
overcame it.
5.
Your problems aren’t always as bad as you think.
The best way to find out how good you
actually have it is to take a break from worrying about your own life and do
something kind for someone in a worse spot than you.
Go do service at a homeless shelter,
orphanage, or battered women’s home, etc. Helping people who are worse off than
you puts your own problems into perspective and helps you feel far less
overwhelmed.
6.
When it feels like you can’t do anything, that’s exactly when you need to do
something.
Like it says in number 3, your situation
changes quickly when you start doing something.
Those who overcome their struggles quickly
are the ones who never give up, even when they feel that all is lost.
At times it might feel like there is nothing
you can do, but that is exactly when you need to do something.
How will you ever know for sure there was
nothing you could do if you didn’t at least try? At the very least, you will
find personal confidence in knowing that you did everything you could.
7.
Be grateful for what you do have.
In a world of people obsessed with putting
their best self forward, it’s easy to feel like everyone has more than
you. STOP!
Get that thought out of your head and
remember what you do have. Often the things you have right now are things you
were worried about having in the past.
Don’t let an insatiable desire for more blind
you from seeing and appreciating everything you have right now. You have more
than you know. Be grateful.
8.
People want you to succeed.
Remember there are people in your life who
want you succeed. Your life touches so many others and there are people out
there rooting for you.
Braden Thompson
https://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/8-things-remember-when-you-are-overwhelmed.html
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