Are you overwhelmed?

Do you feel constantly overwhelmed by all the things you need to learn, all the things that you need to do in order to achieve your most meaningful goals? When it comes to getting to the next level of our career, the way that we define success for ourselves. One of the most important things to call is to constantly be learning so that you can grow and contribute more meaningfully, become bigger and better versions of you.

Oftentimes, I asked myself questions related to overwhelm - what do I do, when I am so overwhelmed with all this new things I have to learn? And then because i have so much to learn with the overwhelm , I feel like I want to give up. I feel like it's not going to get anywhere. I feel like I'm not going to make progress. Or have you felt this way? That maybe it's just going to take a long time to be able to get to where I want to be and that leads you feeling overwhelmed.

How do I handle feeling overwhelmed? Is there a way to overcome it?

We've been taught throughout society, media and our parents as well and friends have been programming us to believe that feeling overwhelmed is a bad thing. So we assign these judgments to certain feelings, like feeling sad, feeling angry, overwhelmed, that's all a bad thing. But what if there's no such a thing as a bad emotion? Because all emotions serve a purpose. There's a reason why we have feelings, there's a reason why we feel overwhelmed or depressed or sad or frustrated. There are reasons why. Because your emotions are pointing you towards what's true in your life.

So when you feel overwhelmed, I'm congratulations! Because it means that you are elevating to brand new ways of thinking that you have opportunities. You have more choices, you have tools that you have access to, you just don't know where to begin. Compared to before, if you're not overwhelmed it means everything's familiar to yo. It means nothing's different. There's not a whole lot of choices, everything's comfortable, it's manageable. This means that growth is also at a cap as well. So overwhelm is a very positive thing.

The thing with feeling overwhelmed is that it causes us to feel like we're back at square one. But that's a myth, you are not back at square one because back at square one means no overwhe but feeling stuck, not having as many choices as you have right now, not having the tools that you have right now to choose from or the new knowledge that you want to dive into and you know, it's inspiring and worthy knowledge. So that's absent. So you're not at square one. So what do you do? The question is, well then what? What do I do with the overwhelm?

The key is not to try to get rid of the emotion. Because overwhelm is a human emotion and we try immediately, when we feel angry, frustrated, sad, all those negative emotions. The first thing we try is, I gotta get rid of it, but you can't get rid of an emotion without at the same time getting rid of the positive emotions as well. Here's what I mean by that.

You feel overwhelmed right now but on the other side of that overwhelm is possibility, fulfillment, performance to a whole new level, fulfillment and satisfaction is on the other side of a overwhelm. So if we get rid of overwhelm, you think about the things you need to do to get rid of it? That's going to take away the possibility of achieving those meaningful goals. So the key is not to get rid of overwhelm, the key is to understand what overwhelm represents and therefore we can formulate control over our reaction to overwhelm. Remember thst overwhelm represents possibility. It represents already growth access to new knowledge and deeper levels of thinking, critical thinking as well. That's what overwhelm represents. So then how do we react? How do we inspire our reaction to overwhelm? And that is to know that the key is to gro, to continue growing from this. Because what do you want at the end of the day?

Each and every one of you what you desire is to master a skill so that you can be fulfilled in your life and in your career, Isn't that it? The essence of what you want, the end of the day, you want to be fulfilled, being grateful, really satisfied with what you've achieved. That's the end and that's the essence of what we why we're doing any of this in the first place. Why do we work so hard at our jobs? Why do we work so hard to study in school? Why do we get several degrees? Why do we invest in our personal skills? Why do we do put ourselves through this pain? Because at the end of the day, we want to have the best quality of life fulfillment, satisfaction that's what we want, right? So then, our reaction to this overwhelm is from that place of understanding what overwhelm means. We can react to it by saying "okay, if that is the essence of what the aim of life is, why i'm doing this in the first place? All I gotta do is start with what I know and let what I know grow." So this is powerful starting with what you know.

Right now, you know new things. Inevitably, you're going to know new things. So now, you're starting with a whole new level of knowledge, knowing and understanding a whole new level. So then, you start now with what you know now which is different from what you knew before. You just start there and you let what you know grow. There's so many things that maybe you need to reflect on and spend more time on to gain a deeper level of understanding. Sure there's a lot of different rabbit holes you can go down, right? So many, but what if you just have to start with one? Literally, you start with one, which one do you start with the one that most inspires you.

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