{"id":3277,"date":"2010-10-27T03:46:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T09:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2010-10-26T06:57:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T12:57:22","slug":"help-i%e2%80%99m-overwhelmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/help-i%e2%80%99m-overwhelmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Help!  I\u2019m Overwhelmed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/amovita.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Overwhelmed_Worker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"145\" \/>One of the number one causes of quitting is feeling overwhelmed. Overwhelmed in your marriage, overwhelmed at work, overwhelmed with a new idea that you\u2019re trying to get off the ground, but there are just so many moving parts, you feel like you\u2019re never going to get a handle on any of them.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s my response to that.\u00a0 Relax.\u00a0 It\u2019s normal.\u00a0 <strong>All successful people feel overwhelmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the things they don\u2019t tell you about the creative process is that most of it feels like chaos.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 You\u2019re doing something new in a different way.\u00a0 You\u2019re spending your hours differently.\u00a0 You\u2019ve enter into a world that you haven\u2019t proven you can succeed in <strong><em>yet<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So if you feel overwhelmed do this little discipline.\u00a0 Say to yourself, <strong>\u201cToday I will get up, I will suit up, I will show up, and I will do the next right thing.\u00a0 And after I\u2019ve done that, I\u2019ll do the next right thing again.\u201d<\/strong> And you\u2019ll be amazed that over time, stringing together a lot of \u201cdo the next right thing\u201d actions will get you to the goal.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, the great missionary Paul said, \u201cI run with purpose.\u00a0 And every step toward the goal of the high calling for which Christ has laid hold of me.\u201d Listen.\u00a0 Get the goal, run toward it, realize that you don\u2019t run alone and without the power of Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the number one causes of quitting is feeling overwhelmed. Overwhelmed in your marriage, overwhelmed at work, overwhelmed with a new idea that you\u2019re trying to get off the ground, but there are just so many moving parts, you feel like you\u2019re never going to get a handle on any of them. Here\u2019s my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/help-i%e2%80%99m-overwhelmed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Help!  I\u2019m Overwhelmed!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}