Overwhelm. It gets us all at some point and can totally knock your confidence, make you feel anxious about your business and maybe even want to quit.
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The first stage is to identify your triggers.
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One thing that is triggering for me is all the ads I’m being served. Marketing experts telling me to do this, do that. It’s actually why I turned my own ads off for a bit because I felt I should be doing the same.
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Comparison is also a trigger. People who appear to be doing so much better than me, when I know I’m smashing it, just in a different way.
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Here are some tips to overcome the overwhelm.
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☑️ STOP. Overwhelm is worse when you’re tired. Take a break for a few hours, a day, a week. However long you need.
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☑️ LIST. Write a list of everything in your head. All the things you think you need to do. Get them on paper so you can see them.
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☑️ PICK. Choose one thing from the list to do. Only one thing. Ignore the rest. It could be something you enjoy doing most or something you feel is the biggest pressure.
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☑️ NOTICE. Notice how you feel when you achieve that one thing. Do you feel like it’s a big weight off your mind? Or that you could have done more?
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☑️ REPEAT. Take one hour, one morning or one afternoon, one day at a time. Do only the things that are necessary and avoid your triggers, even for the short term.
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