This is a YouTube video titled "Day 5 4 Adios Overwhelm & Perfectionism!" created on November 14, 2014. The content features Alison Mueller speaking about overcoming procrastination by addressing feelings of overwhelm, perfectionism, and difficulty in getting started. It is a motivational and coaching-style talk aimed at helping viewers find personal strategies to activate productivity and reduce mental blocks. There is no indication of multiple speakers or a conversation involving Amber McCue.
Hey there. And thanks to Amber for having me for the plan a thon. I'm Alison Mueller and I own Big River Coaching. While I'm a coach and a business owner, I also have a background in education and psychology. So I love that I get to bring some of the inner work to the big deal of getting things done. And after this whole week of all this awesome planning strategy, I don't know about you, but I look at all these possibilities and what I want to do and things I could do and things I've been meaning to do and I get super jazzed. But because I'm such an information gatherer, I want to gather more information before I make some decisions and absolutely before I start implementing. I bet you know the feeling. So it's very likely that I will take pause, look around, and then stop in my tracks. I don't know if any of you can relate to this, but if you have a hard time getting started and you are thinking that there's one right way to do things, I want you to ask yourself a few questions and, and this might be helpful for you, for all of you folks out there that, you know, kind of get stuck. Also known as procrastination. So here are the three questions you can ask yourself. One, am I feeling overwhelmed? Two, am I feeling perfectionistic? And three, am I having a hard time activating my brain? Am I having a hard time getting started or getting my body activated? So let's go back for a little bit. Number one, am I feeling overwhelmed? When you ask yourself that, that can be a very valid reason for why it's hard to get started. Is it about the project in particular that you're talking about right now? Is it about your day that feels overwhelming? Is it about life in general? And once you figure out your own antidote to feeling overwhelmed or having two or three or five options antidotes to that, you come up with some options for how to move yourself out of that. Same thing with feeling perfectionistic. If you ask yourself, am I feeling perfectionistic? And you say yes, meh, maybe you may have something there. And so what are some ways that you yourself can come out of it looking a little differently? I think that so often when we think of perfectionism, we think of something being without flaw. But really what I see in my work is some stuckness for folks where they feel like there's one right way to do it, or they have this vision and they are holding so tight to it. It becomes something that is they get anchored to and it's hard to move on. So. So if you're having some procrastination stuff happening and it's because you have this one vision, what's your antidote to that? How is it that you can free yourself up to other possibilities? And thirdly, am I having a hard time activating my brain? Well, that's just sometimes about getting up and getting going or the getting started part. There's all kinds of ways that you can look to for your own antidote for that. Mine oftentimes is really whittling things down to say, you know what? I don't have to do this for two hours. I'm gonna do it for five minutes. And once I start on five minutes, then the rest falls into place for that. So here's my challenge for you. As you're gathering all of your plan a thon ideas, and you're looking ahead to the end of quarter four and ahead to the beginning of 2015. What is your antidote for overwhelm? What is your antidote for feeling perfectionistic? And what is one way that you can help yourself get activated? Get started when you're feeling that lull? So there you are. Happy planathon.
