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If I hear one word a lot from everybody who's ambitious, creative, and visionary is that we feel overwhelmed. And, I wanted to share a sweet and short episode today with you because I know you got lots to do. About overwhelm and something that one of my somatic movement teachers once told me that really changed my whole view in this and that is that overwhelm literally means that there's more information coming into the body so it's literally you are reserving more information, more impulses like I want to do this or this idea or that person says that or I'm comparing myself with this person like, all that, then that you're actually motoring it through your body and expressing it out. So since then, I'm always, like, if I'm overwhelmed, it doesn't necessarily mean I need to just, I don't know, grind and, like, get my whole to do list done. It doesn't mean that I fundamentally need to change my business because everything is wrong with it, like, whatever.
Relinde:It means that in that moment, I am not expressing enough. Now what is expression? Expression can be in different ways. Expression can literally be movement. So one of the very natural things for us humans to do is to motor things through through movement.
Relinde:If you look at kids like they don't want to sit down, we tell them in school maybe quite young I find to just sit down and concentrate be in their heads while actually a lot of the learning happens when they are just moving it through through the whole nervous system, through the whole body. While I'm recording this, I notice myself like I'm moving. For me, movement really is a key to get out of overwhelm so that means get up and go for work or I like to do a little bit of like more conscious kind of movements in my body really, feeling every vertebra in my spine and like feeling my body or maybe doing a little bit of full tilt body tapping where you're just tapping your skin with your hands and just giving yourself that feeling being back in the body, really having activating every part of you to come online and to move and to move it through literally. So movement, and it doesn't have to be long, can be a great way to conquer overwhelm. So let's say you're working on something, you feel completely overwhelmed, maybe you feel so overwhelmed that you have 16 things to do on your to do list and you're doing nothing or you start online shopping your nervous system is just, you know, tuning out.
Relinde:It's like I'm doing something completely different because all of that is stressing me out so much. Why don't you get up and get a little bit of movement and get back and like focus on one thing and get it done? Now, of course, I think in a way getting it done so for example, if you're like, I need to write an email, get the email written is also gonna reduce the overwhelm because the writing, the creative process of the writing is also expression. So everything that is like I'm writing it out maybe you're drawing it out maybe you just need to sit down with a big piece of paper and you're really visual and you need to take some colored pens and draw everything that's on your mind. You need to get it on the paper, out there, look at it, that's also a form of expression.
Relinde:Maybe you just need to draw period, you know, you just want to like, I'm just gonna do some creative expression in between all these left brain tasks that I'm doing. So expression, maybe you need to let your voice out, you know, the voice is such a huge channel as well of letting everything out that we block because we learn like don't be loud. Don't sing because you're not good at it. Like, whatever things you've picked up on your voice. Maybe you just want to or sing along with your favorite songs and you don't care what it sounds like.
Relinde:Or Maybe you're you're playing an instrument and you just need to spend some time like playing the piano and that's your form of expression. So expression can look different ways. I do think movement is a very intrinsic one that our bodies just need, our nervous systems just need, so if any type of movement, you know, for what I know people they really need that adrenaline kind of movement they need to get surfing and in the sea and then after that they will feel relaxed and focused, Somebody else likes to go and do some yoga or dancing or whether they set just walking. Just any type of movement of getting it back into your body will reduce the overwhelm but if you like to express yourself in other ways, so singing, writing, drawing, making music, listening to music, those things literally reduce overwhelm because you are using your body's capacity to express itself rather than just only getting information in that your that your body is just being activated like, okay, there's a lot of things to do, but actually we're sitting here and thinking about it. That creates overwhelm and I think over time that really creates stress and anxiety.
Relinde:So when I was this week, I had a meeting with my team and we looked back at the past 3 months and I did something great in the past 3 months, which was hiring an OBM. So somebody like who manages project manages everything we do in the business and who helps us keep everything organized, and she is amazing. And we were looking back over the past 3 months, and I saw that we've reduced overwhelm with a couple of things. And, of course, I was also in the organization of our business. Yeah.
Relinde:So if I would just go and move around all day, that would help a lot. But, also, if there's just all the time, too much to do and too little time for too little people, then that's still not gonna help. So what we did was taking some things out of my hands, making sure that all these things that need to be done, operational tasks, recurring tasks, are done by my team so that I can focus on these creative processes and express myself there, and have focused time, so there's not 6 things I need to do in 1 hour, but I really focus on one thing or even one thing in a day. Like, I'm gonna focus on this email sequence completely today. Tomorrow, I focus on something else, and today I'm focusing on my clients and coaching them.
Relinde:That is what also reduces overwhelm for me. So, if you are you're listening to this, you're like, great, that sounds amazing. I can get somebody else on my team and and make sure that our processes are better. That is great. Maybe you're at the place that you're like, that sounds great for Linda, but I can't hire a whole team.
Relinde:What I did from the beginning is create, as I call it, a CEO schedule. This also minimizes overwhelm. That was from the beginning that I have days in a week. I have a rhythm. My business has a rhythm.
Relinde:So on Monday, I know I have maybe team meeting even when I just had only one VA. I would meet up with her. I know that I'm looking at the week doing some scheduling and that I might be doing some content creation, but often it's quite kind of, planning, scheduling day. It's a day where I'm really, like, organizing the rest of my week and look at all these things that needs to be done. On Tuesday, I'm coaching my clients.
Relinde:I don't think of anything else. I take care of myself. I make sure I go to yoga in the morning. I go for a walk outside, and then I spend a good amount of time on zoom just being there fully, fully for my clients with nothing else on my mind. Then on Wednesday again, I do something creative.
Relinde:So right now we're preparing, a really cool new free event which you will hear about soon. So I'm creating that on the Wednesday. This week, Wednesday Thursday, I'm completely into creating that and creating all the assets around it, putting all my creativity in it. And for me, it really works to say, in that day, I might have 1 or 2 other things. So I check some emails, I get back to some client questions, but for the rest of the day, I focus only on that, so that really helps me to reduce overwhelm.
Relinde:Thursdays, I do teach workshops for my mastermind students, so often I teach a workshop or I do an embodied vision session and I do the occasional 1 on 1 session. And then on Fridays, again, I do whatever I want to do. So it depends a little bit in my week, but I know roughly that Tuesdays Thursdays have client calls the other days also have their purpose. So, those this is something very simple. I did this even when I didn't have the clients yet and that sounds so weird is like I was really wanting clients and I was like I'll have clients on Tuesdays Thursdays and then I didn't have them and then what I said was you know in that time I will work on getting clients and and the other days I do this and this is my rhythm.
Relinde:So I started to organize the rhythm, the heartbeat of my business early on and for me that reduces overwhelm. I know I don't have to think about administration on a Tuesday. If I do that, I do that on a Friday and I don't have to worry about it on Tuesday because I know Friday, that's when I'm doing that. And I think this is so important, especially if you think of that the businesses we run often are run like by a big team, you know, you are the marketing department, the sales department, the client satisfaction department, the client customer service department, the social media department. Maybe you're doing all of it by yourself.
Relinde:So if you do not structure that in some way, if you don't give it a little bit of rhythm structure in your week, it can easily be extremely overwhelming. And if you give it a rhythm, it really builds so nicely because if you do something consistently every week, that really, yeah, that really pays off in the longer term. So I promised you a shorter episode here, that I just wanted to talk about this thing called overwhelm that so many people deal with. So first of all, overwhelm is, a too little expression. Too much information in, too much impulses in, too little motoring it through and expressing it out through the body.
Relinde:Movement is a big deal. Expressing it out in other ways of expressing such as writing. It could be creating your videos for Instagram, expressing it out, drawing it out, singing, screaming, dancing, all these things. So you only need to implement moments in a day that you are expressing more so that your nervous system feels less overstimulated. That's really important.
Relinde:Again, my way is really getting in the body. I think for most people it is, but really feel for you what that is. For some people really it is singing, you know, it's just that is their instrument. So really look what that is for you. What type of expression can you do way more of, and in little increments in a day as well, and just get from your chair and do it, and then get back to the work again, and then there's something about creating rhythm in your weeks, in your business, knowing that you are not trying to do 6 things at the same time, but you have days in a week, moments in a week where you do a certain thing.
Relinde:And then if you're ready for that, build a team, make sure that other people take things out of your hands so that you have that focused time. So I hope this is super helpful. I'm excited to hear from you how this works out for you. You can always hit me a message, send me a message on Instagram. I'd love to hear from you.
Relinde:And here we are for a week months without the feeling of overwhelm, where we allow ourselves to express out so that the body and the nervous systems feel beautifully imbalanced, and you can do your best work. Thank you for joining us today on the Choosing Ease podcast. Remember to subscribe so you never miss an opportunity to connect, and I'd be so grateful if you could share your thoughts in a review. Join me next time as I continue to explore the powerful skills and strategies that will help you to let go of everything that keeps you from fully sharing your genius. You are destined for greatness, and through the Choosing Ease podcast, I'm here to help you own your unique wisdom and share it with the world.
Relinde:Until next time, keep choosing EASE.