Profitable Change Tips

Help Me Change: Chunking Your Way to Success

Break it down so you don’t break down…

Do you ever feel overwhelmed with all you have to do on your plate?

The worst feeling, right?

When you have a big task ahead of you or when things begin to pile up, you can begin to feel overwhelmed.

Do you find yourself thinking things such as:

“I’ll never get all this done……..

“There’s just TOO MUCH to do!

“This always happens to me!”

Looking at some tasks as one whole piece is like trying to eat your favorite pizza all in one bite. No matter how good it is, you will choke on it!

Break it down into manageable chunks

The key to this stress-buster is to break a task or a situation down (chunk it) into smaller pieces. When you break things down into smaller chunks, you make it more manageable. The smaller the chunk, the more manageable it can be.

If you are skeptical about how this works, consider the alphabet, something anyone who gets through first grade knows by heart. The alphabet is 26 separate pieces of information in a very specific order. We learned it by memorizing, not the whole thing at once, but by taking it one piece at a time.

The alphabet is 26 separate pieces of information in a very specific order

To put it in perspective, once you know the alphabet, you can write anything. Just as you can accomplish even the biggest tasks by chunking it down into manageable pieces.