It’s a self-fulfilling prophesy, and circuitous. The more I feel I’m likely to be overwhelmed, the more likely I am to be overwhelmed.
I wrote about this a year ago, and I thought it was saved for ignoble posterity somewhere online, but I can’t find it anywhere.
Here’s what I hear often:
“I’m overwhelmed by everything I need to do get in place to launch my business.”
“I’m overwhelmed by the technology I need to understand in order to host a webinar.”
“I’m overwhelmed by the amount of learning I have to do in order to be any good at marketing.”
But here’s the rub:
Overwhelm is not a result of having too much to do, it’s a result of not knowing what to do next.
To know what to do next, you need to reverse engineer.
“This year I need to earn $100k”
“Therefore I need to make ten sales of $10k each.”
“Therefore I need to identify 40-50 potential clients who need what I have to offer and start letting them know what I know and how I can help them.”