Sometimes the experience of overwhelm looks like bouncing between, actively being in the weeds doing a thing, but suddenly, thinking, “hmm is this the right thing to be doing? Maybe I should do more big picture thinking”, and then doing some big picture thinking, but getting kind of caught up in some details of a priority that comes up, and thinking, “oh wow this looks important, I should probably stop planning and thinking and just do this thing now because all this strategic thinking just feels like a waste of time” . 😂
Stay the course
But realizing, the mindful thing is to stick with the activity, whether tactical or strategic, see it through to the end no matter how distracted you are to zoom in or zoom out in the moment.
Flow is best
Yes, personally, my favorite thing , is being in a flow state, doing a thing, not getting distracted about whether it is the best use of time, by , giving yourself permission to just do the thing and get deep into it, trusting that before, you did the due diligence to make sure it is important and useful.
Don’t go mad
So yea, small bites, of explore and exploit. And a system you trust, to write down a thing that comes up , you can deal with later, if feels like you would forget. But doing both higher order and lower order will simply drive you mad.