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Are You Feeling Overwhelmed?
Our information- and Internet-based economy and culture are overloading us with stimuli: news, ideas, conflicts, options, deals, the list goes on, and all changing at a dizzying rate. The pressures to absorb, decide, respond, carry on and keep up have created unprecedented levels of anxiety and stress. And yet, old methods of coping — drugs, vacations or a session with the shrink — are no longer working.
If they were, then evidence of social, cultural, economic, and personal crisis would not be so prevalent. We wouldn’t be seeing such an increase in apathy or cynicism or feel the need to numb ourselves from reality, whether through overworking, overeating, overspending, overdrinking, overindulging or simply barricading the door—anything to kill the pain and escape the relentlessness.
On an individual level, people are:
- Exhausted, apathetic, depressed
- Mad, rude, impatient
- Disorganized, unkempt, late
- Frantic, stressed, always rushing
- Forgetful, distant, disoriented
- Besieged by colds, illness, and accidents
Dealing With Uncertainty
In the current climate of uncertainty, we have diminished confidence when it comes time to make career changes, health decisions, financial investments, or relationship commitments. When we experience the present as chaotic and the future as unpredictable, it’s easy to become confused and therefore tentative in moving forward. In recent history, not only has our financial security been eroded, but our physical security has been threatened as well. No wonder we may sometimes feel crazed or that we want to hide under the covers.
We live in a time when it is easy to feel powerless, with no control over our daily lives, let alone our destiny and future. This feeling of powerlessness can cause us to easily become disillusioned with our careers, impacted by stress-related diseases, and to experience transient relationships and a general confusion of purpose.
When we’re overloaded, overwhelmed, and faced with too many choices, the easiest way to deal with our complex world is to find someone to make our choices for us. Major retail companies understand this trend and are currently capitalizing on it. Our feelings of being overwhelmed has resulted in:
- Wanting to turn over key decisions, such as those related to our finances and physical health, to someone else
- Making business investments in enterprises that are not sound or with no understanding of the ramifications
- Giving too much power to too few individuals
Our lives don’t need to be filled with continual challenges, obstacles, and crises. But we do have available to us the choice to live full, rewarding, and productive lives and to not be at the affect of the turmoil around us.
We all have the power:
- To make the right business and investment decisions
- To choose the right health, diet, and medical options
- To heal ourselves and the world around us
- To live according to our own purpose and passions
Because chaotic times cause us to question our priorities and modes of thinking, they represent an opportunity to assess what’s really important to us — what we most value in life. When life is out of balance and we feel disconnected, we’re often not even aware that we keep making poor personal and business decisions. The more off-track and out-of-balance we become, the farther away we move from leading rewarding and meaningful lives.
Are you ready to reclaim your personal power?