Thursday, November 10, 2016

Day 406 - Overwhelmed and unproductive

Image result for overwhelmed unproductiveI've been noticing that I am overwhelmed at work to the point where it just feels better to do nothing or to waste time doing something other than work.  When I attempt to focus, I start thinking of all the things that I need to do to increase my sales and thus income, and then when I start, I freeze up once the tasks involved become difficult.  A lot of what I do, to increase sales, is based on faith - faith that the work I do will come back to me in the form of new sales.  But there is no guarantee of this and then this fear of wasting my time kicks in and then I just do something else altogether and wind up just wasting my time.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to become overwhelmed at work.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself give up on my tasks because I am overwhelmed / accepting and allowing me to go into the belief that I am overwhelmed / feel overwhelmed.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that feeling overwhelmed is real / is me / exists outside of the construct of energy I create within and as myself, as me as my mind.
I forgive myself that I have not allowed myself to, when and as I see myself as feeling overwhelmed, to take a step back and breathe until I am clear and here, and then from there sort out / prioritize what I need to do within the point of what is most efficient and most productive, then break it down into steps, either in writing or in my mind, and then move myself to execute each step, one by one and breath by breath, unto completion - wherein I stop and breathe when and as the point of being overwhelmed comes up, until I am clear reminding myself that this is just energy / an energy construct that I created without purpose.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that doing nothing at all or wasting my time is a solution to feeling overwhelmed.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to go into the feeling of being overwhelmed when and as I perceive myself to be busy / too busy.

"Most of us judge how busy we are by how much we have to do. When there are too many things to do, we think we're busy, and when there isn't much to do, it feels like we're not busy at all. But in fact, we can feel busy when there isn't that much to do, and we can feel relaxed even when there's a lot going on. The states of "busy" and "not busy" aren't defined by how many things there are to do. Contrary to popular opinion, there is no such thing as multitasking; the brain can tend to only one thing at a time. Being too busy or not being busy is an interpretation of our activity. Busy-ness is a state of mind, not a fact. No matter how much or how little we're doing, we're always just doing what we're doing, simply living this one moment of our lives."Norman Fischer

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to judge how busy I am by how much and how many varied things / tasks I have to do.  
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to go into / participate in / within and as "feeling busy" when and as I perceive that there are "too many things" to do / to be done, and to not feel busy when there isn't that much to do / to be done.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to judge feeling busy as bad / negative.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to connect "feeling busy" with being overwhelmed.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself create a personality wherein the characters of "feeling busy and feeling overwhelmed" combine together with the character of "wanting to give up".  Within this, I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to participate in / go into the behavioral pattern of moving around doing pointless tasks / taking breaks as a way to feel "better / more positive" as a solution to this negative feeling personality pattern of feeling busy, overwhelmed, and wanting to give up / feeling as if there is no hope.  
I forgive myself that I have not allowed myself to see, realize, and understand that I can in fact live, as myself, the word "relax" in every moment of breath that I am here as the breath when I have lots to do and when I have very little to do.
I forgive myself that I have not allowed myself to see, realize and understand that multi-tasking can be used as an excuse / belief / justification for not applying myself as much as physically necessary to complete each individual task as it should be.  I commit myself to reduce the amount of multi-tasking that I do to just what is best within self honestly considering the situation at hand in the moment / in real time.
I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to not see, realize, and understand and to also ignore my realizations within this regard, that "no matter how much or how little one is doing, one always is just simply doing what one is doing" and thus there is no need for judgments positive or negative to be projected on to what is physically here as what one / or self is doing.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to needlessly react with all kinds of energies / characters / personalities onto what I am doing, thus creating emotional instability within and as me as my mind, instead of just simply breathing and being here within and as what I am doing without judgment and reactions.
When and as I see myself going into perceiving that there is either too much to do or to little to do and then judging this and going into all sorts of reactions such as going into the feeling overwhelmed and wanting to give up / experience of feeling overwhelmed and wanting to give up, or take excessive breaks thus making self less productive and increasing the intensity and frequency of this overwhelmed experience due to having even more to do, of which is a negative feed back loop, I stop and I breathe.  I do not accept and allow this to exist within and as me from this point forward. Instead, I commit myself find a solution, in real time when and as this point comes up, with the general solution being to break things up to doing to doable tasks / steps, doing what is most practical without judgments or reactions, as the breath and as the physical, here.


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