Jan 12 (edited) • General discussion
✅🥳Conquering Mum Overwhelm🥳✅
👉The Real Reason You Feel Overwhelmed (And How to Fix It)👈
⁉️Let me guess: you have a to-do list that never ends, you feel guilty about everything, and by the end of the day you're exhausted but feel like you accomplished nothing. Sound familiar?⁉️
👉Here's what nobody tells you about overwhelm: it's not about how much you have to do. It's about how your brain is trying to manage it all.👈
✅The Hidden Problem: The Mental Load✅
👉The mental load is all the invisible work that happens in your head. Remembering doctor's appointments, knowing when the kids need new shoes, planning birthday parties, tracking school events, managing the household inventory. It's exhausting because it never stops.👈
😓Even when you're resting, part of your brain is running through lists and worrying about what you're forgetting.😓
✅👉Why Traditional To-Do Lists Don't Work👈✅
😔Most productivity advice tells you to just write everything down. But a giant to-do list can actually make overwhelm worse because now you're staring at visual proof of how much you have to do.😔
😓The problem isn't capturing the tasks. It's organizing them in a way that doesn't send your nervous system into overdrive.
✅The Organised Chaos System✅
🥹This is where the Organised Chaos approach comes in. Instead of one massive list, we break everything into categories that match how your life actually works:
☑️Daily Non-Negotiables (the absolute must-dos) ☑️Weekly Rhythms (tasks that happen regularly) ☑️Monthly Projects (bigger things you're working toward)
☑️Brain Dump Zone (everything else that's swirling in your head)
😀When you organize your tasks this way, your brain can relax because it knows where everything lives.
😏You're not constantly worried about forgetting something because you have a system.😏
✅The Power of Brain Dumping✅
✔️Set a timer for 10 minutes and write down absolutely everything taking up space in your head. Every worry, every task, every "I should probably..." Just get it all out.
✔️Then go through that list and sort it into your categories.
✔️Some things will go on your daily list.
✔️Others will go into monthly projects.
✔️ Many will end up in the "someday/maybe" category, which is perfectly fine.
😀✨The magic happens when you realize that not everything needs to be done right now. Your brain just needed to know you've captured it somewhere safe.✨😀
✅Creating Sustainable Routines✅
🥳Inside the Organised Chaos Yearly Planner, there are sections specifically designed to help you build routines that stick.
We're not talking about Pinterest-perfect morning routines that require you to wake up at 5am.😓
👉We're talking about realistic, flexible systems that work with your actual life.👈
➡️The Daily Rituals module (available now in the Classroom) walks you through creating morning, afternoon, and evening routines that reduce decision fatigue and help you feel more in control.
✅Your Starting Point✅
✔️This week, do one brain dump. Just once.
✔️ Write everything down, sort it into categories, and notice how much lighter you feel. That's the power of getting the mental load out of your head and into a system.
✔️You don't have to do everything. You just need to organize everything so your brain can stop working so hard.
⁉️What's one thing currently overwhelming you? Share below and let's problem-solve together.⁉️
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✅🥳Conquering Mum Overwhelm🥳✅
