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How to handle it — when everything's hit at once

Work, money, relationship, health — all at once. Where to even start.

Job, money, relationship, health — it's all gone wrong together and you're buried.

— Right now

  • You can't carry it all at once — and you don't have to. Today is one day.
  • Get it out of your head onto paper. The list is never as endless on the page.
  • Pick the one thing that's on fire today. Only that. The rest waits.
  • Tell one person the size of it. Carrying it alone is the heaviest way.

— Don't

  • Don't try to fix the whole pile today — that's how it crushes you.

— Later

  • A GP can help you triage the health and head side. One call starts it.

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When it all hits: the short version

  1. 1.One day. One thing on fire. The rest waits.
  2. 2.Get the list out of your head onto paper.
  3. 3.Tell one person the size of it.
  4. 4.Frozen? Smallest next action, five minutes.
  5. 5.Breaking? Lifeline 13 11 14. Don't decide big now.
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