{"id":1207,"date":"2013-07-03T18:55:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T22:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2013-07-03T18:55:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T22:55:18","slug":"dont-let-it-overwhelm-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/dont-let-it-overwhelm-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Let It Overwhelm You"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Overwhelmed\"

Photo Courtesy of Walt Stoneburner<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Sometimes life can bury you under trials and tribulations (or Tribbles if you are a Trekker).\u00a0 You feel like there is no direction you can turn where a problem doesn’t sit in the middle of your path.\u00a0 What can you do when this happens?\u00a0 Redraw your map.<\/p>\n

When a lot of stuff is going on first thing you need to do is breathe.\u00a0 Sit back and relax.\u00a0 This might be a real good time to learn how to meditate if you don’t already do it.\u00a0 You have to do this first and get a grip on your emotions.\u00a0 Until this happens you can’t go any further.<\/p>\n

Once you have gotten a bit relaxed determine what your elephant is.\u00a0 What is the biggest out of all the problems?\u00a0 Once you have decided what this is for you write down what you can do today to take steps to getting that elephant back into the wild.\u00a0 While you may not be able to fix this problem on day one taking at least a small step will allow you a bit more breathing room.\u00a0 Each time you get closer to eliminating it the better you will feel.<\/p>\n

Once you have done at least one step towards the big problem do the same thing with all of the smaller ones.\u00a0 Anything you can eliminate today, such as calling and making that apology you know you need to offer, making that doctor’s appointment for the physical you dread, or making a big financial decision, just go ahead and get it over with.\u00a0 You will feel better, have one less thing that you need to deal with, and can focus your energy on everything else.<\/p>\n

Now that you have taken some steps make it a point to make small steps each day until the overwhelming feeling is gone.\u00a0 If you really put some effort forward it shouldn’t take long for you to have a bit more wiggle room.\u00a0 And while this is a simplistic process that will not work for everyone, most people can eliminate quite a bit by doing this.\u00a0 Give it a shot and see how it works for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes life can bury you under trials and tribulations (or Tribbles if you are a Trekker).\u00a0 You feel like there is no direction you can turn where a problem doesn’t sit in the middle of your path.\u00a0 What can you do when this happens?\u00a0 Redraw your map. When a lot of stuff is going on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Blog: Don't Let It Overwhelm You \nhttp:\/\/wp.me\/p1I4ij-jt","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,14,16],"tags":[329,423,424,547,603],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-coaching","category-motivational","category-people","tag-life","tag-overwhelm","tag-overwhelmed","tag-stacks","tag-too-much","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Overwhelmed.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6qxKv-jt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worlddrivecoaching.com\/moveforward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}