A six week stretch of travel had already reduced my output. Then, I got caught in an earthquake in Panama. And finally, upon returning home on little sleep, I was laid out by a bug my son brought home from school.
This weekend, as I started to think about the week ahead, I noticed a familiar, building sensation. A clenching tension in my jaw and neck. A heavy drop in my shoulders. An elevated heart rate.
It got me thinking about how to find your way out of the land of overwhelm when the pile of work and life debt feels too heavy to even start on.
The body and the mind are intimately connected. Every random object is effectively an open loop. I build momentum on the small and then leverage that momentum to knock out the big.
In this piece, I talk about my five-step Overwhelm Protocol: move the body, clean your room, make a Weekly Win Card, create a snowball, and knock down a wall...
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