Life Of E's

Martha Beck, coach and author, made the following statement recently: “Overwhelm” is increasingly common as demands on human attention increase exponentially. The human brain just wasn’t designed to handle the environment we inhabit. So, it’s not just you who is thinking, ‘Gosh, what’s wrong with me? Why can’t I manage everything that’s going on?’ It’s [...]

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Who Could You Ask for Help…and In What Areas? Read the following steps…and do them, please. Identify the three areas where you are the most overwhelmed right now. The areas might be big or small, personal or professional, longstanding or brand new. Write down those three right now. Next to each of the three areas, [...]

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What Happens When You Do Ask for Help (and When You Don’t)? There are upsides and downsides, depending on your personality, for asking and not asking for help. Here are some possible considerations surrounding asking for help: When you ask for help you may now owe someone else some help. AND, when you ask for [...]

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When you are feeling overwhelmed, consider asking for help (and then trusting others to help you).  This is not an easy one for some off you reading this post. Let’s imagine, shall we, that some of you who are reading this have been seen for years as being able to do everything, including: Handling multiple projects [...]

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Great Time Quotes Read through these great quotes. Find the one that you like the most and print it out and look at it often. I have a favorite…can you guess which one it is? Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. Jim Rohn Time [...]

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A teacher who’s a subscriber sent me this email: “I’m a teacher and when I think about everything that has been added to the plate of today’s teacher, I wonder if it’s ever possible to just be ‘just whelmed’ again.” It’s a reality that people’s plates are “too full,” and thus pretty darn heavy. Practice [...]

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Life can become reasonably overwhelming, at least partially due to the incredible number of choices that are available to us in the ‘modern’ world.  If you would like to reduce your overwhelm, one way to do so is to reduce the complexity that exists in your personal and/or professional life.  Specific Areas Where Simplifying Makes [...]

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