Overwhelm

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This week we are going to be talking about overwhelm. Overwhelm is an emotion that I know all real estate agents feel from time to time and since we have the holidays coming up right around the corner, I think it is a great topic to talk about because overwhelm can happen both in our business and in our personal lives.

Interestingly, overwhelm is never caused by what is going on in our lives, it is caused by our thinking. Yep, there are the things that are going on and then there are our thoughts about it.  And we can learn to handle our stress and overwhelm so much better if we learn to manage our minds.

Here are a few fascinating facts about our brains

• Our brains likes consistency.
• Our brains like familiarity.
• Our primal brain likes everything to be the same because that means we are safe and will survive.

And if you consider evolution, once upon a time, our brains had little to think about except survival.  For food we either had to kill an animal or eat a plant.

These days, we are faced with so many options and decisions that when you combine that with all the things going on in our life and business, sometimes our brains just seem to seize up and go into a state of confusion because it hasn’t evolved enough to handle all the decisions.

The thing is, overwhelm always pretends to be necessary but absolutely serves no purpose at all.  We think it is caused by the things that are going on in our lives, but it is actually brought on from our thoughts we are thinking about what is going on.

I want to encourage you to remember, that you can decide through any experience not to get overwhelmed, not to get stressed, not to get mad, just to manage solutions.

Remember, you are the creator of your own reality. And, what you focus on, you create!

If you would like a free 30-minute mini-coaching session on something you are overwhelmed with right now…  go to shellewinkler.com, click on contact tab, and send me an email.

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