Heya Patrick - love the greater bucket ecosystem 😆
How do you see the relationship between the overwhelm from doing too much, slowing down, and full freeze? I think if I were to try to diagram my relationship between those states, the overwhelm would be in some sort of cycle with the other two, though I still don't know where to consiste…
Heya Patrick - love the greater bucket ecosystem 😆
How do you see the relationship between the overwhelm from doing too much, slowing down, and full freeze? I think if I were to try to diagram my relationship between those states, the overwhelm would be in some sort of cycle with the other two, though I still don't know where to consistently find that just right balance for myself... Maybe in the middle of some sort of waveform diagram?
Appreciate your perspectives as always - more later...
Yeah I think I came up with the bucket metaphor when I really came to realize that I have to have a constant, steady, influx of good stuff in my life to keep myself regulated. If I do one really good thing, then nothing for days after, I end up oscillating from really good to really struggling, with no equilibrium.
And maybe to even further mutate my monster of a metaphor, when I'm in swinging back and forth between overwhelm and freeze, I'm often kicking my own bucket and knocking a lot out of it, so the levels are flying all over the place? I dunno, what you're bringing up may not fully fit into this, but I definitely think of it a lot. I think for now I'm just constantly coming back to the importance of consistency, and even if something really unexpected happens, still coming back to consistency as quickly as I can manage, instead of it being a start to a really destabilizing period.
Oh...I think that would be beneficial for me to pay attention to, the steady pace of good things - whatever that might mean on any individual day... I think I still tend to focus on getting things done being the positive, but it's just as often the stress - have to refocus on the feelings (again) to know what's actually good
Heya Patrick - love the greater bucket ecosystem 😆
How do you see the relationship between the overwhelm from doing too much, slowing down, and full freeze? I think if I were to try to diagram my relationship between those states, the overwhelm would be in some sort of cycle with the other two, though I still don't know where to consistently find that just right balance for myself... Maybe in the middle of some sort of waveform diagram?
Appreciate your perspectives as always - more later...
Yeah I think I came up with the bucket metaphor when I really came to realize that I have to have a constant, steady, influx of good stuff in my life to keep myself regulated. If I do one really good thing, then nothing for days after, I end up oscillating from really good to really struggling, with no equilibrium.
And maybe to even further mutate my monster of a metaphor, when I'm in swinging back and forth between overwhelm and freeze, I'm often kicking my own bucket and knocking a lot out of it, so the levels are flying all over the place? I dunno, what you're bringing up may not fully fit into this, but I definitely think of it a lot. I think for now I'm just constantly coming back to the importance of consistency, and even if something really unexpected happens, still coming back to consistency as quickly as I can manage, instead of it being a start to a really destabilizing period.
Oh...I think that would be beneficial for me to pay attention to, the steady pace of good things - whatever that might mean on any individual day... I think I still tend to focus on getting things done being the positive, but it's just as often the stress - have to refocus on the feelings (again) to know what's actually good
Thanks, Patrick 💛