Mindfulness Monday - Journey into being Overwhelmed

Hello Steemians,

Hope all has been going well. Sorry about not getting a Monday post out last week. I try to have the right mindset when I write these posts. Sometimes I am inspired by a post I have read. Sometimes a situation occurs in my life and I can take a moment to look at it and see it as a lesson. Which is what today is. The feeling of being overwhelmed.

From the wonderful world of Google and their define: feature this is how overwhelmed is defined.

o·ver·whelm
/ˌōvərˈ(h)welm/Submit
verb
past tense: overwhelmed; past participle: overwhelmed

• bury or drown beneath a huge mass.
  "the water flowed through to overwhelm the whole dam and the village beneath"
  synonyms: swamp, submerge, engulf, bury, deluge, flood, inundate
  "advancing sand dunes could overwhelm the village"
• defeat completely.
  "his teams overwhelmed their opponents"
  synonyms: defeat (utterly/heavily), trounce, rout, beat (hollow), conquer, vanquish, be victorious over, triumph over, worst, overcome, overthrow, crush; More
• give too much of a thing to (someone); inundate.
  "they were overwhelmed by farewell messages"

When you look at the definition, as it breaks down these are the feelings we get when we examine our feelings of being overwhelmed.

I admit I am hard on myself in more ways than one. I was finishing up some of my duties for @pifc. (Mind you I love the work I do there I fully support the program and truly believe if we can get more people interacting with each other we can build a stronger community.) I also finished up a few other responsibilities with another group I belong to. Again, I love the group, what it stands for and the support it gives. However, I have been put on the 'naughty' list for not following through with my promises.

I have had crazy things happen in the past few weeks which seem to be trying to derail me from this path. I was testing a machine at work. I had no idea how it worked during the process of figuring it out, the pad on my left ring finger was squished in part of the machine. It hurt. It was really swollen for 2 days and was so purple underneath it actually made my that part of my finger look black. It made it incredibly hard to type. Typing one-handed at work was ok, but to do a post not so much. So I put out a couple of posts I thought was pretty good. They did ok, but because with all the groups I need to support others too when I promote my post. I feel completely overwhelmed. I had just read about 15 posts, I was tired almost all of these are people not associated with any group. Trying to support both groups with visiting and postings. It seems to be overwhelming. My husband last night, said I work all day then I come home and work more. He thinks I 'work' more at home than I do at work LOL.

One thing that I find myself trying to do is 'keep up with the Jones' I see people that pop out article after article read more than 20 posts a day plus putting in comments that at the end of the week equal about 30,000 words. I keep thinking why can't I do that. Umm, you silly girl. You work full time, these people don't. So I do the one thing I try to stress to everyone is, I end up beating up myself for not having the follow through on the things that I said I would do.

So how do we fix this?
Option 1) I can just pull out of everything. Which to me is not an option.
Option 2) Drop out of one of the groups I am in. I don't want to. I know I can get this on track.
Option 3) Change my thinking. Rather than looking at myself as a failure and being beat down by as system I believe in. One step at a time and continue forward .
Option 4) Setup clearly defined schedule for myself. Putting a time limit on how much time I spend each day, so that I do not stop taking care of myself.

I admit like so many others, the environment has been a bit different since HF20. So many people are questioning why they're still here, now that we have to work twice as hard. I believe if you put out good then you get good. I feel more like what I do doesn't matter. I could put a post with random words that don't mean anything and end up with the same result.

Just like others post a picture, no information whatsoever and get over 8.00 in upvotes. I post a picture with a fairly well written post and I get 1.00.

Anyway back on topic Here is what I found to be a good coping strategy.
Taken from Better-Help The full article can be found by following the link.

1. Define Overwhelmed
2. Understand Why You Feel Overwhelmed
3. Define Your Priorities
4. Manage Your Energy (Sleep)
5. Surround Yourself with Energy Builders
6. Maintain Your Hobbies and Develop New Ones
7. Appreciate Your Unconditional Worth
8. Take Strides to Overcome the Feeling of Stress Quickly
9. Engage Your Senses
10. Make a to-do list
11. Cultivate Gratitude
12. Clean
13. Delegate Tasks
14. Learn to Say No
15. Stop Multitasking
16. Be Mindful
17. Is it really necessary?
18. Take a Step Back
19. Develop a Strong Support System.

Hey.... Does any of this look familiar?? It should it's 90% of what my Mindfulness Mondays have been about.

Let's see if we can get some chat started over this. NO SAYING I'M SORRY. That is my only stipulation. Life happens and we need to learn strategies to get through it. As far as my Steemit world. I am not sorry for any of it. If I am 'sorry' about anything, it is that I am not more consistent. Hopefully this does not mind numb anyone. If we each learn part of it we can be better support to each other and the ones we love.

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