3 Easy Action Steps To Ease The To-Do List Overwhelm

I was walking down the stairs making a mental note of my endless list of things to get done. The voices of my excited children vaguely sounding in the background. I hear them calling for me, but I am so lost in what needs to get done, that their voices fade into the background. I was way past the sticky note versus the to-do list conundrum.

A bright and early summer morning. Eager and active kids waiting to be entertained, meals to be prepared, chores to be done, work, and deadlines to be met. Barely 10 am and I found myself in overwhelm.

As Mark Silver points out, "If there is one thing that is completely common ... it’s overwhelm. We all get there at least occasionally, and some of us seem to have set up permanent residence. Unfortunately, the view ain’t so nice, and the rent is exorbitant."