Have you experienced a sense of urgency where you feel like time is running out, and you are falling behind some nameless schedule?
Maybe everyone seems to be ahead of you and you feel like you are the only one, or a small portion of a really big group of people, who is falling behind. There are things you know you should be doing but you are either fully procrastinating or partially procrastinating.
And you experience this sense of urgency.
Words may not fully explain this sense of urgency you feel, but it gives you this overwhelming pressure.
Pressure to do better. Pressure to improve. Pressure to achieve. Pressure to find.
Pressure to be.
Even when you overcome one pressure, another one quickly takes its place or even multiple different ones add to it.
It could be that you have a report to submit for work. A colleague tells you that the report needs to be done extremely well or you’d have to spend another week doing it (in addition to all the other tasks you have to do). Then perhaps you are asked the same day how far you have gone on the report, your response of ‘barely started’ gives you a look of disbelief and a reminder of how time-consuming the process is and how urgent it is to get started on it right away. The example begins with what could be a stressful situation and additional pressures get added to the situation.
And so it goes- this cycle of stress and anxiety. It is a multilayered domain where it can begin with one element and multiple layers get added.
Your surroundings play a part in this. The place you reside in, the company you keep, it all contributes to it.
Connection is a powerful tool. When you are connected to people who energize you, this ball of inner pressure subsides, but when you find people who drain you, the ball of pressure in you gets more overwhelmed.
Of course, there are many different ways to deal with this overwhelming feeling associated with stress and anxiety, which many of us are already familiar with. (My personal favorite ones being journaling, breathing, meditating, and connecting with fellow coaches.)
But what if we tried to understand the root of the problem first?
The feeling of anxiety can come from the stimulus in the environment, but not everyone finds the same situations overwhelming. Some tend to find certain situations extremely overwhelming while others navigate fine with it.
The question remains: What makes some people more overwhelmed than others?
The way you look at the world around you and interact with it plays a big part in it.
So, ultimately, the answer to this lies in you.
Coaching is a platform that allows you to deeper explore your thought process and find the answers already in you. The reflective questions below are a guide to support you in doing that.
Questions to reflect
What situations do I find overwhelming? And what do these situations say about me and my belief system?
How do I see the world when I am experiencing anxiety? How do I see the world when I am not?
What are things in my environment that overwhelm me?
How was I like before I experienced any anxiety (or perhaps what do I think I was like)? What has changed?
What is my anxiety trying to tell me? If my anxiety was a person, what is the story that the person wants to share with me?
What are some feelings I experience when I have anxiety? And what are the opposite of those emotions that I have experienced at some point in life?
What is my thought process when I feel anxiety?
What has helped me move past my anxiety? Or, what do I think would help me move past my anxiety?
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May you be able to understand your anxiety better.
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