Mind Revolution

Overwhelm -- the word itself sounds oppressive, doesn’t it? When I hear “overwhelm,” I feel a heaviness in my chest, some tension in my shoulders.  There was a time when I lived in overwhelm. I actually prided myself on how well I could work under pressure. Don’t get me wrong, the ability to work under pressure is a great skill to have, but don’t kid yourself into thinking that your body is cool with you living under pressure all the time. Eventually, if you don’t slow down, your body will make you slow down, like mine did. You don’t want that to happen. I work with outstanding people. They’re go-getters. But sometimes they go, go, go so much that they end up feeling paralyzed in overwhelm. Do you know the paralysis of overwhelm, when you have so much to do that you don’t even know where to start? Yeah, I thought you did. It can happen to the best of us. In NLP, we talk about “chunking up” (looking at the abstract) and “chunking down” (looking at specifics). When you’re in overwhelm, you might have a to-do li