When you are feeling overwhelmed it can cause big problems…for you, your family, and your work…it seeps into every corner of your life.

When you eliminate overwhelm from your life, you have:

Clarity on your priorities, and the ability to easily adapt to the natural ebbs and flows of life

Feelings of inner peace and calm

More confidence in your skills and abilities

Higher self-esteem

Less conflict in your relationships

A greater sense of control

A better relationship with time

The ability to get more done, with much less drama ... and so much more...

In this episode of The Happiness Hunter podcast, I'm sharing the most common trigger points for overwhelm and the key strategies to put in place to help you:

Greatly reduce the chance of getting overwhelmed in the first place

Become more aware of your red flags so you can spot them and deal with them, simply and easily

Get back on track when the wheels fall off - immediately and for the longer term.

These are the same strategies I’ve taught hundreds of clients over the last decade, to help them successfully overcome overwhelm.

Fiona

Creating the right environment and doing the right things at the right time.

For us to succeed in our endeavours in life, we need to be practiced and we need to be prepared.

Often, we do things thinking we are doing the right thing, preparing ourselves for what is coming up - and in a sense we are.

The action is right, but the timing is not.

We often miss this nuance.

We do things, which are the right things to do, but it is not at the best time to maximise the outcomes.

In this episode of the podcast, I'm sharing a really simple example of how thinking we are doing the right thing, but not being fully across the conditions for which we are doing that thing, can sabotage our success.

There’s a scene in the rockumentary ‘This is Spinal Tap’ where they have an amp.

And because they are such a hardcore rock band, they have an amp that goes to eleven.

But to get to eleven, you still need to start at one.

If we don’t start, if we don’t just pick up the guitar, metaphorically speaking, and have a go, then the amp is never, ever going to get to eleven.

In this episode of the podcast, I'm sharing about how we self sabotage, how we stop ourselves from ever getting to eleven - either by never starting in the first place or putting the brakes on before we can get there. Once we start anything, we begin to collect data.

And we can review this data which provides a glimpse into ourselves - our patterns and our behaviour. And it is this awareness which gives us an opportunity to do things differently.

Let's allow ourselves to get to eleven, whatever that means, and wherever that will take us.