Feeling overwhelmed?

One of the things that consultants often come to me struggling with is being overwhelmed in their business. They’re doing client work, working on their own businesses and usually managing a household, on top of navigating the economy and the pandemic and all kinds of things.

Overwhelm happens to all business owners, but it doesn't have to knock you off your game.

There are things that you can do about it if you understand why you get overwhelmed, what you can do when you're overwhelmed, and how you can recognize this as a pattern in your business. Explore why we get overwhelmed and what to do about it in this episode of Profitable Joyful Consulting!

Key areas discussed:

  • 0:00 Introduction to overwhelm
  • 2:06 Figuring out when you do your best work
  • 3:32 One of the ways I see consultants get in their own way and end up overwhelmed
  • 4:32 What to do with your calendar so you get less overwhelmed
  • 7:50 How to make your to-do list way less overwhelming (and still get everything done)
  • 9:49 Learning hard lessons
  • 11:56 The second major reason people get overwhelmed (and what to do about it)
  • 16:34 Patterns of overwhelm as self-sabotage strategies (and how to interrupt the pattern)

Being self-employed can feel like the work never ends. Learn how to get your work (and overwhelm) under control for a sustainable, profitable, joyful business in this episode on YouTube:https://youtu.be/Wg9NQ1SXxCI or your favorite podcast app: http://www.samanthahartley.com/blog-podcast.

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