How to Get Things Done When You’re Feeling Overwhelmed

MiciROX
The Orange Journal

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Homework Mountain

Many times when I’m feeling overwhelmed by a project, I just don’t start at all. Just seeing the mountain of a task in front of me is enough to make me give up altogether.

Of course, I would then reach the end of the day having done nothing at all — which is just all-around disappointing!

So now I’m trying a new mind-blowing strategy of getting things done — when I’m overwhelmed with tasks, I will make do with doing just a small chunk of it at a time. May it be uploading a header for a website, reading a line in a book, or even folding a single T-shirt in a laundry pile. Then I’ll keep on munching day by day until the next thing I know, I’ve tackled the dreaded mountain!

I’m going for consistency over quantity!

Make molehills out of a mountain

It’s no longer scary if you look at it tiny! Ingenious, I know!

I’m fully aware this solution isn’t exactly rocket science, and so I wonder why I have yet to train my brain not to be scared when there is an overwhelming mountain of a workload in front of me.

But this time, I am really going to try to focus on one thing at a time and get more of these…

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MiciROX
The Orange Journal

Do the things you are passionate about and the rest will follow through. http://www.mindfullylazy.com/