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Too many to-dos? Stressed out?
 

 
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Subject - Too many to-dos? Stressed out?

March 9, 2006 

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Too many to-dos? Stressed out?

 

By Belynda Holt Pinto (Mike’s Daughter #1 of 5 in age order)

 

So many people feel stressed out these days and it’s not only because our lives are going in a thousand and one directions but it’s also because we haven't sat down to plan it out a little. Ask yourself - What are all the things I have to do? Have you written them down in one location? So many people, myself included (in the past), spend their time feeling stressed out and trying to remember all the things on their to-do lists. I tell people get this out of your mind and onto a piece of paper so that you can free up your mind for bigger projects. Just do this one thing and you will start to feel better already. If all your to-dos are all over the place, little pieces of paper, your memory, different notebooks then all of your other time management tricks and stress relieving tricks will have a hard time making a dent in that feeling of being overwhelmed and feeling like you are pulled in so many different directions. Once you get everything in one place it’s certainly a lot easier to decide what is most important.

This is the very first step in planning out your to-dos and your life. So many of us are brimming with to-dos and attack them without a plan, just randomly attacking the first one on our mind and moving on with a lot of gusto and at the end of the day are exhausted and frustrated and still feel overwhelmed by the to-dos on the list.. I know because I have been there! Get it out, get it in one place and start from there. You will also be surprised when you get it all out how much you have been trying to remember and how that in itself is stressful, leave your brain free to work on the important stuff.

 

Mike Holt Comment: My daughter is very involved in the field of stress management and how it relates to your business and life strategy. She’s recently created a Blog about this topic. I’m going to start sending some of her posts and if you’d like to comment you can visit her blogsite here: http://imctraining.blogspot.com/

 

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  • Belynda,Your suggestion will apply only to those people whose personality traits are suiting.Others may not follow it for long just as right handed people may not use their left hand instead of their right hand for long.So standard personality test may conducted to ascertain personality preferences of any individual before making lifestyle changing suggestions.Regards.

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  • Thank you very much for the tip, I appreciate it. I know the feeling of having a thousand things to do, and no solid plan of how to attack them :)

    Ryan Jackson
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  • This is so true. I know I should keep a priority list but find myself getting back in the same habit of "run and gun" and getting stressed! Thanks for the e-mails, Mike. Keep 'em coming! (now, cross off list of "reply to Mike Holts good tips e-mail" ;-))

    Mike Lee
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  • Sing it Sister!! I'm drowning in "to do's". My brain hurts. :( very good tip though. Now i just need to put all the sticky notes in one pile : )

    Thanks!

    Alex Rosenthal
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  • I found this newsletter to be very helpful. I saved the blog and think that your daughter is also very intelligent.

    Brent A. Goldsmith
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  • Count me out of this new subject of yours.

    Gene
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  • Good Advice! Thanks.

    Jan Dawson
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  • That's good advice. I've been using a white board in my bedroom to help keep track of things -- it gets pretty full sometimes, but at least I can keep track.

    William Wilson
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  • What a great letter. One thought to add. The list would let people see how much they were getting done. Thanks Ted

    ted hansen
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    DONMULLANIX
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  • Well, there was a time that I wrote everything I needed to do on a list. One day while I was at my pscologist's office I told him how stressed I was because I had this long list of things to do, and it got longer each day. The list was growing into pages, and I was accomplishing things but couldn't keep up with it. His advice was to stop making lists which I did, and that didn't work because then I would forget everything I needed to accomplish. People were not happy with me thus more stress. I don't know which way to go.

    Vernon Berryman
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  • Thank you for forwarding your daughters work. I sure can use somthing in my life to stop the stress. Thanks again.

    5 Daughters? No Sons? I have two daughters, can't imagine 5.

    Bless you Mike.

    Stan
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  • Thanks for the valuable advice which we dont notice but are there, waiting for bright minds like your daugther's to put forward for the benefit of many stressed people like who needs some soothing relief advice. thanks again and continue to give more good advice.

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