Are You Feeling Overwhelmed?

Do too many problems stare you in the face? Do you find yourself with too much to do and not enough time and energy to do it? There are ways out of the dilemma.

by Mark Weaver

As a systems and technology manager of a major company, part of my job is to coach employees. In recent years I have seen an increase of people who feel overwhelmed with their work and home lives.

They feel trapped in three general ways:

Their problems seem more prolific than they were in times past.

Their challenges are bigger and tougher than they used to be.
Life seems much more complex than it used to be.

In general, people are feeling more overwhelmed these days because they sense that the world is tilted out of control. (It was probably never in control, but that's another story.)

Both men and women feel overwhelmed with all the tasks staring them in the face. Their work appears too large, too complicated, too insurmountable, too much. My company works on projects that can take years to finish. The scope of some of them intimidates even some of the hardiest employees. To them, the task simply
seems bigger than they are.

Do you ever have feelings like these? If so, read on to find several ideas that can help you learn how to feel less overwhelmed.

Why do we feel overwhelmed?

I've noticed that the sense of being overwhelmed centers on one or more of the following phenomena:

A feeling that the magnitude of the task at hand is too big to handle.
Being put in the position of having to do things you've never done before.
Being put in or caught up in circumstances where you don't know what to do (a situation especially aggravated when you have had no training to deal with it and there appears to be no plan).
The fear of failure.

All of these feelings have one thing in common—fear.

The core of being overwhelmed is fear—being afraid of the unknown and lacking confidence in our abilities to deal with the unexplored and unfamiliar. But we don't need to let fear and anxiety freeze us. There are principles we can apply that will help us get a grip on our feelings of anxiety and not let them gain control over us.

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