Hey Reader,
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You might have heard this famous piece of wisdom (most commonly attributed to Bill Gates)
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“Most people overestimate what they can get done in a year and underestimate what they can do in a decade.”

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This holds true over shorter timeframes too. We tend to overestimate what we can get done in a day, but underestimate what we can accomplish in a year.
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I know for me the biggest hurdle throughout the day sometimes is trying to work on too many projects and attend to too many things.
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You might be familiar with this scene…
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You’ve taken too much on, your focus is scattered, the phones buzzing, email is chirping, someone or something is "on fire" and urgently needs your attention to put it out. 🔥
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You’re dishing up too many plates and juggling too many balls in the air... 🤹🏼
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And they're all about to come crashing down on you.
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Combine that with just being a human living in the 21st century who has a career, a family to care for, a household to manage, bills to pay, goals to chase, and a burning desire to get ahead and improve every area of your life.
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And let's not forget to mention taking care of our health and keeping ourselves and loved ones safe from the 10,000-pound elephant in the room known as COVID.
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Sometimes we have so much going on and vying for our attention, it can feel like our heads might explode. 🤯
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Enter the state of overwhelm — that paralyzing cocktail of stress, worry, helplessness, and disempowerment.
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Overwhelm hijacks our consciousness and pushes us out of presence...
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​Leaving us unable to see things clearly.
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Then right on cue enters our mental chatter making our problems appear bigger and more urgent than they actually are. 😱
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But what if I said that overwhelm is a fallacy. 🤭
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​Meaning, it's an illusion created by our minds in which everything feels insanely urgent.
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If we don’t get all this shit done right here, right now, we’re dead in the water. We will fail, be shamed into oblivion, and the world will melt!
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But this is merely a cognitive distortion and what they call “catastrophizing” in the cognitive-behavioral world.
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It's an irrational thought pattern perpetuated from our mental chatter, driven by this extreme sense of urgency.
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​Being overwhelmed is less about what’s going on outside of you and all the things you have to do...
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And more about what’s going on inside of you.
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Sure, what you are feeling is real — but that's only because inner chaos actually creates outer chaos.
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When we have a zillion and one things flooding our minds, along with a whole range of emotions weighing us down, it’s impossible to hold onto our greatest power which is consciousness and presence.
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And without those "big two", we can't slow down, prioritize, and get shit done.
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Here are some quick tips I compiled that can help lead you out of overwhelm and back into consciousness and presence:

Wisdom From Zig Ziglar​
I recently discovered the work of Zig Ziglar on goal-setting and motivation and it's inspiring to say the least. Here are some nuggets from his work that I have come across:
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​"Do you ever find yourself confusing activity with accomplishment?"
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"Anyone can be, do, and have more. BUT... "You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific."
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​"A goal properly set is halfway reached."
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"If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time."

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​In Case You Missed It:
​The 21-Day Habit Myth​

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​A few weeks ago I wrote about the idea that it takes about 21 days to change an existing habit or adopt a new one is purely a myth.
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As you can see in the image above I was very distraught about this so I took my frustrations to YouTube and created this short video. 😁
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​Why You Should Focus on Enough Instead of More​
​This is a bit of a long article but it poses a very interesting mindset shift for life: shifting from constantly striving for more to striving for enough.
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"There’s a culture of more going on right now. More money. More social media followers. More customers. It's time to focus on having enough, not more."​
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Indeed, how much is enough?
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Start focusing on "enough" instead of "more" by:
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👉 Defining what's enough for you.
👉 Creating more margin in your life instead of filling every moment with work.
👉 Embracing the fact that you may need way less (of everything) than you think you do to be happy.
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Thanks for reading.
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