It’s been a roller coaster of a ride these past few weeks so much so it has sent me into a tail spin on a number of occasions.

A huge opportunity has been presentes and the true enormity of it has taken a while to digest. This has therefore meant my priorites have shifted considerably, or more like, been upended so I have not known which way is up.

More often than not a good interval session in the gym followed by lovely hot shower can help soothe the tension. However today – not so much.

Today it’s taken an indepth strategy session with my husband, conversation with my sister, a great client and a really helpful lady at hostmonster.com to alleviate the extraordinary overwhelm of it all.

I am standing on the razor sharp edge of an enormous chasm called “The Great Unknown”. All sorts of emotions have raised their ugly heads and for one I have needed to push through, feel it and let it wash over me to know what to do with it. 

Through all of this I have identified 5 ways in which you can at least alleviate frustration and overwhelm here’s what I have learned:

1. Voice it, label it and write it down

This allows you to take ownership of the frustration and helps you lead to the next step

2. Identify what one thing can be done right now, today, to take a step forward

Have a list of things you can do in a short space of time.

3. Take action – do the thing you know you can do today

4. Try not to allow emotion overwhelm the situation

Emotion will blow it all out of proportion and you won’t get anything done. Robert Kiyosaki said it can be terrifying flying a helicopter but if you allow the fear, the emotion, control you, you’d be in a very different situation!

5. Have an awesome support team

They will enable you to get through the emotional side of things so you can think clearer.

We will all have our “off” days – I feel for some reason seem to be having more than the usual. I like to believe it because I am standing on this awesome precipice and resistance is doing all it can to stop me from moving forward.

Resistance… well that’s a whole conversation in itself. A very insightful being, called Stephen Pressfield, wrote a whole book about it – The War Of Art. A whole post in itself.

I’ll leave you with a great comment my sister made today.

~ Do not look at the wave coming towards you; just keep doing a little at a time, make incremental steps and be resilient ~

It reminds me of what Dory says in the film Finding Nemo ”Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming.”

Until next time, just keep swimming!

Antonia