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Trapped In Too Many Tasks?

Take control of the situation

Anthi Psomiadou
3 min readFeb 21, 2020
photo by STIL on Unsplash

In everyday life, the sense of “dyspnoea” due to a lack of planning, is something that most people cannot manage. Dealing with it is complicated, and often occurs through an ordinary automatic reaction that they do without thinking of it. This does not produce the desired result or it produces results as messy as their inner situation is.

When you feel submerged into the sand from the tasks that need to be done, you have to take control of the situation, regain your sovereignty, make an initial assessment of the issue, and set priorities. Then you can move on to an action plan.

At first, ask yourself:

-What is the cost you “pay” by not being organized, in everyday life? Determine the cost in time, energy, mood, relationships, performance at work.

-What is the main obstacle you face every time you try to get organized? If it’s usually the same, why do you stop? What is there that deeply affects you? How can you manage it (by yourself or by asking for help) so that it doesn’t have much impact on you?

-What part of the non-organization issue would you try to control first and why? What is the sector that, due to lack of methodical managing, has a major impact on your life? Give priority to this. (By doing one…

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Anthi Psomiadou
Anthi Psomiadou

Written by Anthi Psomiadou

Writing, Life Coaching, Criminology, and more. But I simply do these, I am not these. I just am. Born and living in Greece (in both Ancient and modern…)

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