Feeling Your Feelings Without Overwhelm Taking Over

My son is leaving for college this week. I am not ok.

Happy, sad, nervous, excited — on repeat, all week.

I'm letting myself feel all of it. I started crying unexpectedly, right in the middle of my workout on Friday morning, for example.

I felt this exact same way the day he started kindergarten.

What's your best advice for a college drop-off, or any big change you're bracing for?

HOT OFF THE PRESS

“Work expands to fill the time that you give it. If you give yourself a week to do something, the task will take a week.”

You’re not struggling because you’re lazy.

You care. You’re responsible. You want to do things well. And somewhere along the way, you may have started believing that doing things well means giving everything as much time and attention as possible.

And “I just need a little more time to get this right” can be a very convincing productivity trap.

When there’s no real stopping point, it’s incredibly easy to keep polishing, tweaking, reconsidering, and second-guessing something that was already good enough.

And eventually, you hit that point where the extra effort isn’t creating extra value. It’s just creating extra work.

This episode will help you see productivity differently—not as doing everything perfectly, but as learning how to create more calm and ease by recognizing when enough really is enough.

You don’t need another reason to work longer. You probably need permission to stop sooner. 

Check out episode 277 here: https://tinyurl.com/OWWPod.


“When your value becomes tied to how much you can carry, slowing down doesn't feel like rest.”

There was once a woman who became known as the person who could always be counted on.

If something needed fixing, she fixed it.

If someone needed help, she helped.

If something was forgotten, she remembered it.

If there was a problem, somehow it ended up in her lap.

She became the person people called first.

And everyone loved her for it.

The problem was that after years of being everyone's safety net, she forgot that she was allowed to need one too.

One day, someone asked her why she never slowed down.

She laughed.

“I can't. Things would fall apart.”

But eventually she had to wonder:

What if everything wasn't actually depending on her?

What if she had simply become so accustomed to carrying everything that she'd mistaken being needed for being responsible for everything?

If this is you, I get it. I was there. I can help.

Listen to episode 278 here: https://tinyurl.com/OWWPod! 

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