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Overextended into Overwhelm
| Guest post by: Donna Karlin |
Article Overview: What do you have to let go of to build something powerful? It's not a matter of reorganizating or restructuring. It's time to start from scratch.
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Overextended into Overwhelm
For
some reason this time of year is overwhelm time. Clients and colleagues
alike are overextended, scrambling, juggling and trying to keep their
heads above water. They're not honoring commitments or deadlines which
is impacting other's trust in them. Their solution of "If I finish these
two things I'll be ahead of the game" gets tossed out the window
because they don't realize (when they make that declaration) that ten
other things have hit their desks in the interim. For those in positions
of leadership, they're also dealing with staffers who are overwhelmed,
behind schedule, missing deadlines and therefore further impacting my
clients and their deliverables.
You
don't have to be running a huge organization for this to happen. It's
occurring at all levels. So what do you do to fix it? Nothing. You
start from scratch. You don't fix. You create, design and build.
Trying
to shuffle or re-prioritize won't help you deal with the overwhelm or
get on top of all the stuff that you're bombarded with. Starting from
scratch will enable you to build something relevant for now and into the
future, prune out what's no longer relevant and simplify.
Start
with the question (you've heard this before so it might be time to
start doing it) "What do I have to let go of?" and then follow up with
"Who do I need to work with? What tools do I have to start incoporating?
What is no longer relevant in the scheme of things and can be dropped?"
and very important in my book, "Will what I'm doing right now help me
build something successful?" If you don't have those answers, then
definitely stop, take stock of where you're going and why and then start
moving towards it.
The
other great thing about starting from scratch is you have a clearer
view of what direction to take. You don't have 100 things weighing you
down which takes your eye off the ball.
You choose. What, when where and with whom.
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Article Tags: building your business, Overwhelm, relevance
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About the Author: Donna Karlin RSS for Donna's articles - Visit Donna's website Donna is an author, speaker and lectures internationally. Her work has been written up in Fast Company Magazine, The National Post, The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and Personal Success Magazine. Her blog Perspectives™ is avidly read by subscribers from 144 countries and she has currently authored and released the book Leaders: Their Stories, Their Words. She is a SupporTED coach, on the team that coaches TED fellows, is Past President and current Dean of the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations and a member of the Advisory Council for International Adademy for Behavioral Medicine, Counseling and Psychotherapy She has a proven track record in developing sustainable leadership. For tips on how to choose a coach click here Click here to visit Donna's website  
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