How high performers overcome mental fatigue and cognitive load

It's ok to feel stress. But some try to stop it. Others want to avoid it, eliminate it all together. Stress is not evil on its own. The problem is when you get stuck.

Stress can be a signal of care, importance, or focus.

A challenge. An opportunity. A way forward.

How will you navigate getting unfrozen and changing your relationship with the unwelcome stress?

The list of ways is as long as you are willing to create. And that's the essence of the problem. If you go searching on the web, listening to podcasts, or attending webinars, you will add a lot of knowledge, entertainment, and possibly confusion.

Take a client I've been working with who has a toolbox full of strategies from years of trying. Her ultimate measure of success is to be happier, knowing what tools to pull out and when. Steps have been focusing on catching the downward spiral before it happens.

Here's a summary from a session this week.

She reads me a post from a popular author with tears in her eyes and a quiver in her voice. She is moved by a quote about having space to breathe.

So, we unpack it.

Her entire career has been about efficiency, streamlining processes, and finding flaws. But this, space to breathe, is a different way of thinking for her. Our takeaway becomes an active plan to test it at home and with herself.

She provides examples at work where she has caught herself sprinting through to-do lists and gets up to take a walk before getting carried away.

Building on her success, we intentionally set up a practice of being present. Shifting away from treating her family like the machines she optimizes at work, or at least giving herself the grace to realize that change may take time. We check in in two weeks to see how it goes.

This is what a different approach looks like. It is a whole-person, human focus.

Thought. Body. Spirit.

That is how we work. No random playbooks. No advice just because it worked for me or your sister. Instead, our private, one-to-one 90-minute strategic sessions pivot and follow what's on your mind:

Attitude practice
Meaningful change
Actionable strategy

If your goal is to clear your mind, take intentional steps forward, and reach your vision, let's talk.

Reclaim Your Decisive Confidence

I run these sessions to help driven professionals quiet the noise, clarify their path, and move forward with resilient well-being.

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Written by Andy Culbertson from 314Coach.com in St. Louis, Missouri. NBC-HWC and Anthropedia Coach with 25+ Years of Business Ownership Experience and 2,000+ Performance & Well-Being Sessions Helping Professionals Navigate Change with Support, Strategy, and Vision to Get Through Whatever Is Going On.

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