Overcome to Become

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Overcome the Overwhelm

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S1 E1: Goals and Overwhelm

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Many holes. It leaves holes in the, in the cultural makeup of of your circle. Even if you weren't, their best buddy. You didn't sit next to them in choir or anything. You were still looking for that person across the way and listening for their laugh

And I I even have that on the door. It's very exciting. So there were there, were a few things that I did. One of the first things that I did was you reached out to me and said, "Hey, I can help you"

Because you absolutely have to have people. People do need other people. And I definitely needed somebody who knew more than I did about how to handle burnout.

And it literally works every time. And of course, right now it's,, fall. At this moment in time, it's fall and all the trees in my neighborhood are in full color. It's beautiful out and so I'm, I'm just I'm delighted that I that I took that time for myself because when I got back I was able to refocus and dig back in and really make some progress on the problem I was working on. And that's, that's like one of the most invaluable things that I got. And then I don't remember if you told me to do this or if I just intuited it, but I realized that one of the things that I was missing was the creative activity of music.

Music

My, my, my music, my musicianship. I conduct. And so there is no conducting, your your phone and, it's kind of hard to do on zoom also. Just, I mean it's just not an easy thing. And especially in the early days of the pandemic, they, they had this squelch thing going on where if you were both talking at once, somebody shut it down.

I'll go over here and I'll play a piece or two on the piano and it is always terrible. Nobody needs to hear this at all but it helps me. It helps me kind of unwind that problem. And so when I go back, it's like the walk. When I go back, I can, I can do more with it. And neurologically, from a learning perspective, neurologically this makes total sense because they've proven that having exercise after you've studied actually helps you retain better.

00:21:48.14It activates that diffuse thinking that you need in order to sort all the information that you just got into its little holes so your brain isn't full anymore. It really does get full, so.

Meditate

Meditate on it. And together, I mean, and they've proven that too. I mean, there's that whole vagus nerve that calms and and sues.

To that community it cannot be overstated. And so, I mean like in a time like COVID where we were not with our church families, so we weren't singing every week with our church families and we weren't singing in choirs because we couldn't stand together in order to do it. We were not in our offices and we were at home with our families, which is lovely. However, sometimes the house.

It's really small,  listening to live music. I remember Michael and I went to see Hello Dolly right after, right after the the first wave of the pandemic. I was sitting in the theater and realized that this was the first time I had heard live music, like, live musicians in months, months and months and I I almost cried.

I couldn’t see my overwhelm

Yeah, yeah, that was that was a really ...I didn't. I couldn't see it because I was in this situation. I was just like, well, how can I manage this? Well if you need a break, take a break. So I did. And then I ended up using up all my vacation time, taking one little break here and one little break there, and it wasn't helping. I was still coming back, just as burnt out as I was before I went on for my three day vacation to nowhere.

And yeah, it was not particularly helpful and it was really starting to to get to me in ways that I didn't even realize were stress responses. So.

Crying is a Pressure Valve

Honestly, I didn't even realize that I was under that level of pressure, right? Like, of course I care for my sister. I love my sister. I love her baby, right? Like we're there for her. But I'm... I tend to be a person who cries in happiness, not a person who cries under pressure. Like, I might get it done, do it, solve it. But I feel like these people, myself included, who go out of their way to solve other people's problems also are more likely to get to the overwhelm.

Because we are doers. We don't maybe recognize the pressure that we've put on ourselves or the burden that we've chosen to carry and then when it's lifted.

I mean, like 45 minutes later I'm already playing my instrument. So in public with. Thankfully I have fantastic guys in my band, right? And I just had a huge emotional rush, almost like a sugar low.

Where all of that, from just the emotions coming and going. And I'm like I guys, I ... I need a break. Like I had to walk away and my instrument requires so much breath, so much control and that focus to play, which helps me in all these stressful situations. But it got to a point where I was like I must put my instrument down and walk away and our setup is such that it's made to do that.

Anyways, where I was like, "You guys got to carry it for 10 minutes. I need water. I need, I need a minute."

And it was, I would say that pressure release was more than a week of really working through the emotions of even recognizing how heavy that burden had been that I was carrying, of course...

Pray, meditate, wish for the best, work for the best, do all the outcomes, all these things, visualization. But at the end of the day, hardship is hardship and grief is grief. And when it relieves like that it's pretty fascinating, but I just want to say that we should all be careful and not criticize ourselves if we find ourselves in overwhelm again because it just creeps up and life is hard and the way we get through it is by building those communities and having wonderful relationships with in our, in our case, our musicians community, but talking to you, talking to my bandmates.

They were there. They're like, we got you.

Living the Tips to Overcome Overwhelm (Angela)

I've trained as an endurance athlete and I have many of these tactics that we teach during this class. They're part of my life because, yeah, because of the music and because of the physical activities that I participate in. And so I believe that it allows me to handle quite a bit; however, there is a breaking point for everyone and it's important to understand where that is and.

One, try never to get to it. But two, have that strong sense of community where somebody is not afraid to reach out and say, I've seen this before. No thank you, no thank you for you. Right, I'm here for you.

Katie/s OMA Records and ÅSMR

OK, so I started a record label, which is not something that I ever thought I would ever do. This is, and I really when I started it, I didn't really know much about it. I thought, no, this is not for me. But as I read about it, I realized that there were so many ways that this could go wrong for a young band, not just my kids who are a little older.

But they're still pretty young. For me anyway. But other young bands, bands that have only been together for a few years or maybe even a year, who, really.

Don't know what they're looking at when they're trying to navigate the possibility of gett

It’s a common example, but important to remember. Grab a pint jar, three walnuts in their shell and a cup of rice. If you try to put the rice in first, the walnuts do not fit in the jar. However, if you put the walnuts in first, the rice will in – around the empty spaces. What is this allegory for us?

As hard as it seems, we have to prioritize those hard tasks – and only focus on 3 of them, sometimes only 1. If we get just 1 to 3 hard things done each day, the rest of the day’s work gets done. Give it a try. Drop me a note and let me know how it works for you.

Even for the best of us, list all the things we *don’t* want to do

You’ve heard me say it before and I will always reiterate. Set a goal, make a plan, and be willing to adjust. We cannot control what happens in our lives. We can control how we react. 

But at least I have a plan to adjust, which is much better than shooting from the hip wondering what I'm going to forget next. This is what works for me. I would love to hear from you. Please share with me what works for you. What do you do to make sure that you get the things done during the week without becoming overwhelmed?

Finding Peace in Goal Setting

Adjust When You Get There

Feel the Feels; Do the Do