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I'm feeling overwhelmed by my To Do list. How do you cope? (self.chat)

submitted 1 year ago by GandalfDG to c/chat

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As the title says, I'm getting pretty overwhelmed by a growing list of tasks I have to do. Laundry is piling up, I still need to unpack my car from a roadtrip last weekend, and an issue I've been working at work has been dragging on for too long.

What are your techniques for resetting and getting through tasks that have been sitting around for too long?

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[–] average650 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I start to feel paralyzed, I just do something, any of the things.

Ideally it would be the most pressing thing, but as long as it's something, I can get in a groove.

[–] DrunkenWombat 5 points 1 year ago

This is more or less my answer as well. I remember being overwhelmed by a seemingly unending list of todos before finals in my freshman year of college and was getting nothing done other than stressing about them. Eventually, I just chose something that I was willing to start, and then the next, and then the next, until it was done.

I had realized that the hardest part for me is starting, because I paralyze myself with a moebius strip of todos. It is easy for my mind to think of a list and just cycle through the same items over and over, which makes it feel unending. Eventually I just start, and that also starts a positive feedback loop, and then I'm done and feel much better.