Usually, when something new comes into our lives, good or bad, it can throw a big wrench into our daily routine.
As a result, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed because not only are you trying to figure out how to deal with what just came into your life, but your routine gets disrupted and when routine gets disrupted, things don’t go as smoothly as they did before, so now you have to deal with the effects of that and now it becomes like a juggling match. It all begins to stack on top of one another and we get the urge to escape from it all.
Not only that, the new event tends to disrupt our balance, and we tend to follow its’ gravitational pull toward its’ respective end and we stop doing the things that we did before that gave us the feeling of balance in the first place.
It’s a pretty nasty situation to find yourself in.
So what do you do when you start feeling overwhelmed in life?
Of course, we stop and breathe.
We let the shoulders drop.
We inhale, exhale.
Slowly.
We stop and breathe.
And then we ask this:
What’s important?
Big picture wise in our lives.
What’s important?
Then we start building around that.
We start building and getting back to a routine that revolves around what’s important in our lives in the big picture. This might involve some reshuffling in terms of hierarchies of importance but if so, so be it. Things change. It’s bound to happen.
The most important thing in this is you find an “anchor” – something to settle yourself in while you weather the tumultuous seas of life.
With that anchor, you get back to your new and improved routine. Routine is important because with routine comes back the feeling of control in your life and the emergence of the results you desire to happen because of the consistency built into routine.
I think, especially with the advent of the Internet as the ultimate medium form, where everything is beginning to converge – TV, radio, books, music, socialization etc. – there’s so much out there, content-wise to overwhelm you.
It’s easy to feel like a tidal wave of information is crushing you.
And each successive new piece of information can lead you to question your own life, to the point where you have millions of new paths to choose from that all this information has introduced to you, that you forget a very important principle.
The Internet is a TOOL.
YOU USE it.
Don’t get to the point where you feel it’s using you, sucking you dry of energy via diffusion of focus, tempting you to gorge on it like an information buffet.
It’s easy to let it overwhelm you.
Remember, it’s a tool. Use it to help you get to YOUR big picture.
If you don’t nail down what’s important to you in life, in the big picture, it’s easy to get overwhelmed.
Think about it.
You have no filter.
Without a filter, it all comes in.
But with a filter, you can pick and choose and be content.
Use the Internet to find the most effective ways to help you build a life that revolves around what’s most important to you. Not a ton of little ways because that will overwhelm you. Just a couple major ways to do it and be done from that respect. Build those ways into your daily routines.
When that happens, the overwhelming feeling will reverse. No longer is life overwhelming you, but your life will feel overwhelmingly good for you.
The potential for anybody on this planet to become overwhelmed by everything that’s out there is 100%.
It’s only the people who have looked within first to create their own filter who are able to easily overcome the overwhelming nature of the world and use it to their advantage.
