Overwhelm

Too much on your plate! Too many options, too many tasks, too many ideas, too many emails .... too much!

The feeling of overwhelm has reached epidemic proportions in our culture. The effect is to "go numb" and typically we look for something menial or manual to distract us from this very uncomfortable feeling.
This experience is the natural outcome of the information explosion brought on by the internet and other forces. Twenty years ago the mantra was "information is power" as so we sought to make more information available. Well now we have all the information and opportunity that we could ever want. We are faced with more messages and decisions and information than we are currently equiped to manage.

In the face of the feeling of overwhelm it is essential to learn how to keep the big picture in perspective while having a reliable formula for knowing what to do next.
This is a challenge because the feeling of overwhelm creates a numbing effect which disrupts our natural capacity to "know what to do".