The ONE next thing...

Feeling overwhelmed is consistent with being human.

Long periods of feeling overwhelmed is consistent with unhelpful stress in our body, mind and brain.

The purpose of our right and left hemisphere of our brain can help us out with the overwhelm. When things are overwhelming, the left hemisphere excels at structure, sequence, this-than-that kind of thinking.

Given the circumstances, what is one task that you might act on right now?

Suspend the rest of the overwhelm until that one task is executed. This calms the stress hormones as it communicates that you are controlling your thoughts instead of your thoughts controlling you.

Lead yourself well

Indecision creates stress.

A lack of clarity creates stress.

The awareness of a difficult decision that needs to be made creates stress.

And - not all stress is toxic stress.

Simply acknowledging that there is a difficult decision, considering the sliding scale of best possible outcomes and least desirable possible outcomes is good stress for your mind, body and brain.

Make the invisible visible so that clarity might shine light on this 'difficult decision'.

Lead yourself well.

You can not hurry trusted relationships at work and in life.

Trust takes repeated trustworthy behaviours over time.
Trust can be broken in .07 of a second.

Value your people.
With intention and attention.
Do the work of 'better together'.
No shortcuts of manipulation, coercion or dotted-line contracts to trust-based leadership. It's authentic or nothing.

Lead yourself well in authentic trust with those whom you do business with, those you live with, and with those whom you value a relationship.

You are human, yes?
Then you need a safe, trusted place of belonging.
Safety.
Trust.
Belonging.

These are a few of the universal needs of all humans. No one is exempt.

This place may evolve and shift and change over time.
Different places offer different spaces of belonging.
Be diligent, be intentional and lead yourself well in both creating these spaces and being part of these spaces.

Lead yourself well.