The "Overwhelm" Hack

If there's one thing I feel a little too often, it's being overwhelmed. So much so that I coined my own word for it: "exhaustimulated". A collaboration between exhausted and overstimulated.

But there's something I've learned recently.

The reason I feel overwhelmed most times is because I'm looking at the billion things I have to do all at once. Everything is screaming for attention, and together it looks scary and insurmountable.

So instead of going nuts over the 101 things on my plate, I've learned to focus on just one thing at a time. When I'm working on one task, I intentionally shut out the others demanding my attention. I lock in on that one thing, and honestly, that's how I've survived the past few crazy weeks.

Because if I don't, the sheer weight of everything I need to do quickly turns into a kind of paralysis. The anxiety doesn't come from the work itself; it comes from trying to carry all of it in my head at once.

Dearest reader, life gets crazy busy sometimes. Responsibilities pile up, goals keep calling , and everything seems to be moving at full speed. In moments like that, it's easy to become overwhelmed or, as I like to say, "exhaustimulated".

But instead of staring at the entire mountain, focus on the next step. Don't look at your situation like one giant jigsaw puzzle. You'll lose before you even start, look at it in pieces, focus on the one percent you can solve right now.

And that, I'll tell you for free, is the hack to feeling overwhelmed.

PS: You sef calm down small. You dey try.

@favvy_Okwans🖤.