The book signing trick

I'm in the middle of searching for land in rural Bulgaria AND looking for a second-hand car without getting ripped off.

...While in a country where I don’t speak the language, and trying to run my business at the same time.

This morning, I could feel my mental bandwidth filling up, and the temptation was to shut the laptop and convince myself that escaping the country with only a suitcase was my best option.

But chilling for a second, I know that nothing has actually gotten more overwhelming.

Only my tendency to juggle many thoughts at once. That's where the pressure comes from.

My life wasn't harder than it was yesterday. The tasks weren't bigger.

There were just more of them sitting in my head at the same time, and my mind was trying to deal with all of them at once.

How to handle this more calmly, especially when life seems more overwhelming?

Think of it like a book signing. There's a queue of people waiting, and each one wants your attention. If you look up and see the whole line stretching out the door, you'll panic.

But that's not how a book signing works. You sign ONE book.

You look up. You smile at the next person. You sign another.

The queue handles itself because you only ever deal with whoever's standing in front of you.

Your life works the same way, and the overwhelm kicks in when you try to see the whole queue at once. (Our brains LOVE doing this).

Right now I'm writing this email. The car, the land, the admin stuff, all of it can wait because none of it needs me this second.

The queue is still there, but I'm not staring down the length of it anymore.

I spent years getting knocked around by this before I figured out what was actually happening.

I put everything I learned about building that kind of uncommon mental stability into Untethered Mind course.

If your brain likes to pile everything on and then tell you you're drowning, this is the course that shows you how to stop believing it.

Grab it here.

Peace and sheep, Alex