How to check off mind-racking work without feeling overwhelmed

Ever felt that you have an irritating traffic of tasks jostling in your mind to get checked off?

Emails, assignments, medical, home errands and your to-do list can go on.

A mere thought of these tasks is overwhelming. You try to do it all, but you feel that your hands are tied. You feel confused, clueless, and even frustrated.

You think deeply about getting it all done, but soon your mind spins up clever excuses to keep you off it. And?

The next moment you find yourself putting your feet up and having your favourite drink or watching television or scrolling on the social media.

Because confess it to yourself – you know how to distract yourself. You know how to get yourself busy with something easy and dumb so that you can keep your mind far from grappling with the tough.

But the revulsion of this escapism?

Even though you’re busy in such mindless, low-quality activities, the burden of pending tasks continues to silently scream on you in the background.

Has it ever happened with you that you’re engaged in a movie/game or something and are unable to enjoy it thoroughly? When you would have felt that even though you physically are present there, something deep down in your heart is anchored on to something else?

Yes, do whatever you like, you can’t silence this inner voice.

Yes, you can’t.

When the regret of squandering away our time trigger waves of enthusiasm in our hearts, we vow that we would cross off all the pending tasks. And we leap up and go full steam attempting to crush it all when we find this zest ebbing away – pushing us back to where we had started from.

In the second scenario, the immensity of our to-do list compels us to look the other way.

News, Facebook, caffeine – and in one word – distractions.

Our mistake?

We try to find the solution in extremes.

There should be a balance between these 2 options. Neither attempting to do it all nor abandoning it completely. Instead, we must do what feels the most important at that present moment.

Doing one single important task and then feeling grateful about it would help us do our most important work done little by little.

“If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.”

Samuel Butler, nineteenth-century novelist

Here’s a 3-step approach that we can implement to take our projects closer to completion.

  1. Identify 1 single step which is most important and doable for that time
  2. Centre our energies to biting it off
  3. Feel happy for having it done

Moving ahead in the right direction is important, even if the steps we take are small.

Abraham Lincoln said, “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

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