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Getting Out From Overwhelmed
November 03, 2006
So yesterday, the offline work floodgates opened. I got bombarded with tons of emails, asking if I could squeeze this into my schedule, and would I be able to take this on, and oh, an emergency has come up and we really need you to work on this, could you, please, please, please?
Last month, I had decided that I was going to have a happy holiday this year, no bones about it. I even set aside a whole week at the end of December and have been refusing to book any deadlines around then.
But yesterday, I weakened a little. Just a tad. So while I turned down some work, I also took on the ones that looked "easy" and "quick".
Famous last words.
Anyway, this morning I woke up and felt myself in extreme "overwhelmment". After all, there are so many things that I want to do - new sites to get up, new link building campaigns to embark on, a whole new Adwords career to launch. These are the things I want to do, and one of my other commitments has been that I would make the things that I want to do a top priority.
Luckily, I've learned a lot this past year - a lot about life, and how thoughts and feelings shape the reality we're in. Along with this learning has come a series of tools, one of which is meditation.
(I seem to recall blogging here about a year and a half ago about wanting to be able to meditate. Good news - I can do it now!)
I have been incorporating meditation into my life for the past little while - again, making it a personal commitment, which is something that seems to work with me. I recently discovered a series of guided meditation CDs that work to help bring me into the theta state easily. (The theta state is the state you are in when you're in deep meditation. Something that my very distracted, idea-happy, idea-hopping mind always resisted in the past.)
You can scoff if you want, but these CDs really do work. So this morning, I put on my headphones, and did an hour of meditation, even though my entire body was screaming for me to get downstairs to the office and start W-O-R-K-I-N-G.
And now, here I am. I feel good. I know that I can get through the work that's coming up in the next few months, easily and quickly. I know that I will be able to do all the fun stuff, too (like yesterday, when I totally revamped a site and put it back on track - more on that in another post when it's totally back on track).
I am so not-stressed that I'm blogging this right now.
And then I'm going out for lunch.
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