This is what my good friend Russ had to say about the post(s): “Overcoming Overwhelm” from January 18th, 2009. And: “Welcome new subscribers!” from March 11th, 2009

Thanks for your valuable insight and advice Russ!

Hi Ron!
Good to hear from you.  I’d like to add a little to what you said in your post.  There is tons out there to help manage one’s time.  Companies, businesses, systems, hundreds of books all created to deal with that.  Not all are the right ones for certain individuals; I recommend Mission Control, and some of the content below was learned there.  What is important is to understand your story or interpretation of how time occurs to you.  Creating an empowering context is always the first thing to do.  For instance, if your story about time or yourself is “I don’t have enough time” or “I can’t get it all done”, guess what?  That’s what you will get!  You are always winning the games you are playing, so if this is your game, you will win!!  Create an empowering context for yourself and give up any attachment that you know how to do it.  If you did, you would have already done it.  The space of not knowing how is the space that you will grow into and expand yourself, allowing others to contribute and creates a clearing for new ideas to arise.

Overwhelm is quite distinct from performance and I will only deal with overwhelm for now.  Like everything in life, it is actually very simple in nature and we make it complicated.  Overwhelm is simply the lack of having a structure for existence that is big enough to manage the games that you are playing.  The bigger your games, the bigger a structure is needed to disappear overwhelm.  (You might want to consider that if you never find yourself in overwhelm, you might not be playing a big enough game.)  Overwhelm is an opportunity to expand and get bigger than you know yourself to be.  It is not a bad thing, and we will make it bad if we don’t expand the structures that we use to get out of it.  Over and over again.  You may already think you have a great structure, but are you using it?

I’ll post more from Russ tomorrow when he reviles “The Key to eliminating overwhelm”

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