394: Confidence Comes After You Act

In your description, Justin, made me think about When everything feels important and it's on me, then it's easy to feel overwhelmed.

That's one of the things I think you have seen and you work with your clients on so successfully.

What happens to our ability to make good decisions and stand in our values when we're feeling that sense of overwhelm?

it becomes degraded.

It's just like if you, everyone knows what it feels like to get a poor night's sleep, right? Yes, you can get through the day, but it doesn't matter how many cups of coffee or tea you have, like you're still operating from depletion.

That's what it's like whenever you're operating in a consistent state of overwhelm.

And yes, cognitively, you're affected because your brain is now trying to spin all these plates in the air.

But physiologically, like your nervous system is, you know, in fight or flight mode.

And it's kicking out all the chemicals to keep you going, which are meant to only be doled out in short bursts.

Right.

Like if you walk into a room like, oh, my God, there's a lion there.

Right.

Your body's not designed to operate like that.

So.

The problem is whenever we get in these perpetual states of overwhelm, our nervous system is just redlined or very close to it.

So now the body is not able to go through that cycle of rest and relaxation, which it needs, which then that starts affecting your immune that further hampered your cognitive ability.

So then when your cognitive ability gets hampered even more, now it's easier to become overwhelmed even more, just like that bad night's sleep example.

Things that normally you'd be able to just roll with and move on throughout the day, well, now that spilled cup of coffee becomes like, my gosh, I can't believe this.

The world's collapsing.

If you haven't had like a good night's sleep, like we all know that feeling.

So it's like that, but it's magnified whenever that overwhelm just continues to be there and ramp up and get more severe.

You had a really powerful example you shared with me of a client who was so overwhelmed.

He just got to the point.

He said, just tell me what to do.

Yeah.