When it rains, it pours.
Yes, we’ve all heard it, and more importantly, we’ve all experienced it. Too often it seems that when we’re dealing with one crisis or challenge, suddenly two or three more emerge. We quickly become inundated to the point of drowning and overwhelm, and become anxious about handling it all.
What’s the solution? Channel the anxiety and negative energy into action.
First, get it all out of your head. For whatever reason, problems are always bigger and greater in volume in our heads. Get a piece of paper or open a digital task list or note, and dump everything on your mind. Dump the issues, the worries, the anxieties, the related concerns, anything that has your attention.
Second, go through each item to determine the desired outcome and the next action. This channels anxious energy into proactive, positive, forward outcomes. You’ll likely find that several items on the list are just “worries” and have no outcome or action. Eliminate those and focus on the rest.
Finally, get to work. Pick the first available, physical, visible action from either the most pressing issue or the one you can knock out fastest, and take the action. Once you have the data point, you’ll know what to do next. Then you can repeat with all the other items.
Worry is useless. Channel is productive and proactive, and it takes the worry away very fast. The bonus is, you get forward motion on the things that eliminate the worrisome items for good.
To get control when it’s pouring, don’t reach for a life vest. Instead, get it out of your head, define what to do, and get to work.
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