Feel overwhelmed

So, you might find that in step two, you identified a specific trigger, like whenever you feel overwhelmed, you tend to just write lots of notes very verbatim. So, that's the old habit that's not serving you anymore.

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And so, you can speed that up by not doing an entire big session, you can just start by giving yourself a trigger that is overwhelming and just practicing the step of when I feel overwhelmed, instead of writing verbatim lots of notes, I am going to do one to two sentence summaries and think of an analogy instead.

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And it will just give you an incredibly confusing, very long explanations on something, and as soon as you start reading it, you're going to feel overwhelmed.

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Or, "Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by the scale of the problem." Overwhelmed is a great word. Yes, it means feeling like something is too big or too much to handle easily. I think a lot of people feel that. They do.

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For example, I feel overwhelmed by the scale of the issue.

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Another example is too much bad news can make people feel overwhelmed.

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So with our lives increasingly tied to screens, whether it's for work, socialising or entertainment, it's easy to lose track of time and feel overwhelmed.

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We're tied to them increasingly more and more, whether it's for work, socialising or entertainment, it's easy to lose track of time and feel overwhelmed.

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You feel overwhelmed when things feel like they are too much.

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And so now I teach them how to prioritize and how to pick, not how to dream, you know, a thousand different things cuz they feel overwhelmed.

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