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Feeling Overwhelmed

Marivers February 27, 2018

Overwhelm is a feeling of heavy burden, defeat, hopelessness and entrapment.

People live their lives each day feeling overwhelmed by stress and fatigue from various situations.

Sometimes overwhelm will come as a direct result of our choices, or lack thereof.

When our decisions lead to poor time management or when we’re being indecisive we are in a sense inviting overwhelm to move into our lives and take up residency.

People deal with overwhelm in a variety of ways; some are able to manage their feelings, others seek help from someone they trust, but many allow their feelings to become deep-rooted.

One way to deal with feeling overwhelmed is to organize your choices and responsibilities. Decide what’s most important to you and create a list with those most vital things being at the top. Vision Boards are a great way to illustrate your goals. If you’re crunched for time, you can create a virtual vision board by finding pictures on the Internet, take a few screenshots and then create a collage of things that you want to accomplish.

Prayer for Peace: I pray that you walk in peace and organization today. I pray that simplicity and vitality rule your life today. I pray that all feelings of overwhelm are released and diminished. May your to-do list be short and may you find ways to collaborate with others.

Melissa

Fear Based Decision Making

Marivers February 17, 2018

Peace and Blessings to you,

There are numerous situations that can present themselves as crisis in our life. When the threat of crisis arrives, we have a tendency to start over-thinking, over-evaluating, playing the “what if” game and soliciting a lot of detrimental advice.

3 ways to recognize if fear is driving your decision:

If your decision is based on fear of the unknown.
If your decision is based on fear of judgment.
If your decision is based on lack of resources.

All of those situations can be scary and difficult to navigate if you can’t find a way to get out of your own head and make a plan for clear, objective decision-making.

October 2015 was a really tough time for me. I was faced with the reality that my nice paying, great benefit having job was being eliminated. It couldn’t have come at a worse time because I was going through cancer treatments, I was exhausted from radiation and I could not think clearly. I had the options of either taking a separation package or applying for a new job in another part of the organization. I was too exhausted to put a resume together or even apply for another position. I made the choice to leave the company. I figured this was God’s way of telling me that things needed to change in my life and that he had other plans for me. Several months into my choice, things went bad. I realized that I didn’t have a solid plan for how I would sustain my lifestyle and incorporate this new lifestyle of being a cancer survivor.

Because I made a huge choice during a time of crisis and failed to have a sustainable plan of survival; lack, doubt, self-criticism and fear-based thinking and decision-making crept in.

I’ll update you at a later time on how things have progressed in my life since then. That’s a whole different topic, but for now I want you to use the follow nugget when making major life decisions.

Own Your Choice.

You have to completely and unapologetically own your decisions. If that means asking for help, ask. If that means hiring help..hire some help! Do whatever you have to do to make a well-informed plan. You have one life to live and it’s not being lived in reverse. If things go south, course correct, think differently and make a different choice.

I love you for real.

Melissa