Strategies for managing being overwhelmed

Feeling overwhelmed isn’t as rare as we’d like to think. So, when these emotions do arise, it’s good to have some techniques that can help you overcome them.

Everyone gets overwhelmed. 

It doesn’t matter how experienced you are, whether you are a manager or an individual contributor (IC), or whether you’ve gotten through the feeling a thousand times before, it will happen again. And again still.

The key is to be able to face the emotion with self-reflection and introspection so you can pull it apart, determine its cause, and then work out how to proceed from there. Sometimes the reason may surprise you.

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