I’m having trouble hanging onto thoughts. It’s as if there are ideas flickering in my mind. A thought comes to me, then it leaves. Sometimes they reappear sometimes they vanish.
Is this a part of my personality?
I tend to go from project to project. I get overwhelmed and start something different. Get overwhelmed with the scope and change to something else again. Now I have more than one open project and I’m really overwhelmed, and I don’t work on anything. I concentrate on the projects I feel are important but more fun than others. Or life gets in the way, and I must be very selective. This is how I get so far behind on some of them. It’s the tedious, not fun projects that get shoved to the bottom of the pile.
The important project has been lurking in the background.
Now I have a project that is important and urgent, so I’ve marked out the month of April to work on it. I won’t be able to work on my business like I want. This project must be completed to move forward!
Overwhelm is not a place I want to be. In fact, it’s my number one move away from value. Meaning it’s the most uncomfortable. It’s also the easiest to procrastinate and shove to the side.
Procrastination is a strategy I use so I don’t feel so overwhelmed. In the long run, it doesn’t help. In fact, it makes things worse. It does feel good in the moment though. I can tell myself it’s OK I can do this later, it’s not urgent. Until it is. Then I’m really in overwhelm.
How do I get out of overwhelm? Sometimes I go back to something creative like editing photos for a short while. That seems to make things move forward in other projects as well. I can also go out and spend time with the horses. Today after being gone for over a week and having a stressful day yesterday I was tired, my energy was low. I needed to take some feed to Ace so while I was there, I leaned in to receive some better energy from him. Then I felt better.
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