Too overwhelmed to even begin?

It is so easy to get overwhelmed these days, but feeling overwhelmed is one of the BIGGEST barriers of achieving because when we feel overwhelmed it prevents us from seeing the bigger picture.

We tackled the topic of being too overwhelmed on Episode 5 of the stylish study podcast, which you can check out here or carry on reading for some of the ways we recommend tackling feelings of overwhelmed.

There are a number of ways to get yourself out from being overwhelmed. One of the ways you can do this is by stepping back and seeing the bigger picture. If you focus on what is going on right now, you get easily overwhelmed.

Here our favourite way to deal with getting overwhelmed:

Blurt everything out by writing it down, write everything down whether its academic, extracurricular or personal. Once you see it on paper, it become less of a tangled mess. This can also help you to stop forgetting things, that will cause you more stress later.

Remember that being overwhelmed is self-created. Things building up in your head are often far worse than what you will actually go through. People go through it all the time, for me every time I feel overwhelmed I realise that in reality it isn’t as hard or as daunting that I think it is. It is completely normal to become overwhelmed, so don’t beat yourself up because of it.

Write down what you don’t know what to do. You can then sort out everything you have written down into a couple of categories; things you need to do yourself, things other people can help you with and anything that you can use the internet to solve. This allows you to work out that what you need to do is not massive - it’s just an illusion and then you can start creating a plan of how you are going to do everything you have just written down.

Then you can use priority lists to start acting on your plan.

For your priority lists, you should use the following three categories:

• Must-do tasks - tasks that seek your immediate attention and focus

• Should-do tasks - tasks that you can do but are not essential, these often have a deadline further away than your must-do tasks

• Could-do tasks - tasks you can do but they are not immediate

Another way to prioritise is to write down your top three priorities that you must do in order to have a productive way. Priorities are often ones that we feel daunted about completing or have an urgent deadline. By doing our three hardest tasks for the day first we are emulating the ‘eat the frog’ method which involves tackling your hardest task of the day first in order to be more productive.

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