Reviewed by Rama Gaind.
By Lynne Cazaly, Self-Published, $29.95.
With the world reeling from COVID, who hasn’t experienced overwhelm? Argh! provides practical techniques to make sense of our overwhelm and discover new ways to work and cope with all this information.
Award-winning author Lynne Cazaly says it comes down to acknowledging our emotions and better managing our workload. She outlines useful tools to help filter information to avoid burnout that general feeling of ‘too much on’. You will find new ways to make sense of overwhelm, new ways to work and new ways to cope with information. You’ll be all over overwhelm … it won’t be all over you.
Are you juggling and struggling and ultimately drowning under the weight of too much? “Too much information, too much to do and too much emotion connected to it all. Together, this equalled overwhelm. But we humans are able to get perspective on happenings in our life, particularly when we look back on them.” However, things are always clearer with hindsight.
The message here is that “overwhelm is a normal human response, but when it’s connected with increased stress, anxiety, worry or overwork in the longer term, it’s not sustainable and can lead to burnout. We need to do something for ourselves about our own overwhelm; no one is coming to ‘save us’. If you make sense of your overwhelm, you’ll have much greater insight into what to do about it. Sensemaking is one of the key skills to apply to help you work out what to do about it.”
The powerful techniques explained by Cazaly will enable you to find new ways to make sense of overwhelm, new ways to work and new ways to cope with information.
Written with tools that empower you to make real change, Argh! is your ticket out of overwhelm and back into balance.
