Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

What does overwhelm look like

11 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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Danielle Ralston describes overwhelm as cycles of hyperfocus and procrastination that leave you feeling scattered. She argues consistency reduces overwhelm and steadies your productivity.

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Another thing that overwhelm can look like is inconsistent in your productivity. You have intense hyperfocus and then you have intense feelings of procrastination, feeling overwhelmed, getting scattered, more and more scattered. And being inconsistent can then contribute to overwhelm. And then when contribute overwhelm, it gets in place. You can't prioritize. You are inconsistent with what you're doing. So it's never-ending cycle of overwhelm that's looming because you're inconsistent with the productivity. Mm-hmm. And this is why we say consistency decreases overwhelm, increases productivity, increases, you know, we've talked about that so many, so many times.