I have a million e-mails to answer and I have to pick up the kids and make dinner and I have to apply for a loan for my new business—I am never going to get it all done! becomes, post investigation: The e-mails will take forty-five minutes to answer because there are actually twelve of them, not a million, dinner takes thirty minutes to throw together, I can get my neighbor to pick up the kids, and I’ll have plenty of time to fill out my loan application. Oh. Certainly there are some times when we’ve bitten off more than we can chew, but I promise you, the majority of your overwhelm can be set
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