“it do be like that sometimes” is starting to lose it’s magic a little

  • coldv@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “Slow down for a moment, tackle one thing at a time” helps a lot when I’m anxious and overwhelmed.

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      1 year ago

      Yup. One thing at a time is a powerful thing.

      When I was in college I had a therapist. I was telling him how I wasn’t sure if I was being perfectly efficient about how I was going about things, that I was wasting time and energy in my approach.

      His advice was just to focus on doing something rather than nothing, without trying to optimize it.

      It really helped.

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      1 year ago

      This is really close to what I do as well. If I’m overwhelmed, I think to myself, “Just start with one small thing. Then do another small thing. Eventually, lots of small things add up to a large thing. Won’t get anywhere doing nothing and worrying about how much I have to do.”