OVERWHELMED with technology (IT)....what can I do?

NetworkChuck Technology Careers Career & Money

About this video

NetworkChuck describes waking up, staring at his screen paralyzed by a mental list of everything he had to study and create, and shares a two-step framework crowdsourced from hundreds of replies on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn: Stop, then Reset. Stop means disengaging to break the mindset — pray or meditate (for him, talking to God), exercise to get endorphins, take an emotional timeout (he smashed a phone; watch a moving film), spend time with family and friends to remember his why, ask for help from someone outside IT (he talked it out with his wife), and even deliberately procrastinate, e.g. playing Call of Duty, as medicine not habit. Reset means writing down everything he felt he had to do, which exposed the problem: he was trying to study CCNP Route, CCNP Switch, DevNet Associate and Linux Plus all by February while working full time at CBT Nuggets, making YouTube content, and raising four kids. He then prioritized, cut the CCNP Route and Switch exams — pursued only to say he had the CCNP — and focused on the DevNet Associate, partly to join the DevNet 500, the first 500 DevNet-certified people. He urges not comparing yourself to others, saying no and doing less to accomplish more, re-establishing a healthy daily routine, and going slow — ‘go slow, it’s the fastest thing you can do’ — because persistent people will always find another opportunity.

Key takeaways

His two-step response to overwhelm is Stop (disengage and recover) then Reset (reprioritize and restructure)
Stop tactics from viewers: pray/meditate, exercise, emotional timeout, family/friend time, ask someone outside your field for help, and time-boxed procrastination
Writing out the full to-do list revealed the cause: four cert exams by February plus a full-time CBT Nuggets job, YouTube, and four kids
Reset in practice meant cutting CCNP Route and Switch and focusing only on the DevNet Associate and the DevNet 500 goal
Do less, re-establish routine, stop comparing to others, and go slow — doing less while overwhelmed accomplishes more than doing nothing burnt out

Episode details: published February 6, 2020 · 14:23 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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