Enough is enough!”   “I can’t take this anymore!!”   “There is simply too much on my plate, I don’t see how I can do it.”

Sound familiar? Well as Bob Dylan put it so well… “The Times They Are A Change’in”, and it seems that when it comes to feeling the stress and overwhelm, the changes aren’t making life any easier.

I thought that the advancements I dreamed of while watching “The Jetsons” as a kid would have been here by now. And I guess that many of them have arrived. But, they don’t seem to be making life any easier!

Change is in the air as we sit on the brink of a new President and just after a new year what better time than now to tackle this overwhelm head-on!

I invite you to take a deep breath, grab a pad and your favorite pen, and lets look at a simple tool to help you solve your most overwhelming problem - overwhelm.

Here we go; Get in a quiet place to do each step.

1) It’s brainstorm time; I want you to take as many lines or even pages and start writing down everything you have to do and everything you want to do…everything you have been assigned or asked to do by a boss or spouse. If “Go to Spain” comes up?… write it down. If “Brainstorm about all the things I am supposed to do” comes up?… You might want to go to the blog: www.SimpleActions.com because… You’re me! (Ha.. Just kidding.)

2) Now, Once you think you have everything you can think of. I want you to pick one thing. It could be an easy item or a tough one. It doesn’t matter. Just pick one!!

3) Grab another pad if you have one. If not… It’s OK, just flip a few pages back to allow for future items that you might think of to be added to step one’s list. Now, put that one item you chose in big letters on the top of the page.

4) Now repeat step one; But this time you are going to brainstorm about all the things that you could do to move forward on this item. And do it as if you had all the time, energy, and finances totally abundant and available to you right now!

5) Here’s the fun part. You can take a break at any time because you can pick up where you left off very easily in this process. But I do recommend that you do your best to finish each brainstorm as completely as possible especially when you’re on a roll!

Hint; It may help to think of it as a map you are creating from now to the point in time that this one item is complete. The goal is to break it down to simple steps you can do in a short period of time.

6) When you’re done with the first one, Stop and imagine how that would feel to actually be done with this item… pat yourself on the back and go to the next one. Which one? I don’t care, Just pick one!

**When I did this the first time I actually got three big 5-packs of letter size pads. Each one ended up with an item heading I called a “Project Heading” I went all out with three colors of G2 Gel pens, clipboards, nails in the wall, etc.

Do whatever works for you and is still something that keeps the process moving!

Some may argue that you have to prioritize each item. then that you must prioritize the task list aka: Action Items. I say “Bull _____” Yep, let others go out and prioritize and micromanage every minute I thought… That’s not for me. The point is that you are moving forward on the things that are important to you. And sometimes that’s a life long dream of doing something outrageously fun (Like that trip to Spain?)

I think that the things you have to do and the ones you love to do can be the same things. So just pick what you feel like doing that day that will move you forward toward the goal or completion of that project and one day… You’ll feel more like doing the things you didn’t want to do on another day, etc.

Are you ready to start moving forward toward your goals and dreams? Ok, Great! You are going to apply the simple actions concept to your lists.

7) Each time you find a few moments in your day to work on your project(s) It’ll all be right there. Pick what you can be passionate about in that moment by reviewing the project titles. Look through the list of tasks of that item and find something that you can do quickly. A phone call you’ve meant to make. An email to that contact that can help you achieve this goal., etc. and then it’s easy…

Now you got it? Great!… Do it!

You will find that when you do this consistently, compounded over time… you’ll see that you are creating the predictable and controllable results you’ve set out to achieve!

Get started Now!

Yours,

Ron

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