How to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed at Work

This 16-step guide covers what to do when you are struggling at work

Work: sometimes it’s all a bit too much, isn’t it? The digital age bombards workers with new tasks from all directions, while the backlog of things that need doing builds and builds.

Unfortunately, that feeling of being overwhelmed by emails, colleague interactions and an infinite to-do list only makes it more difficult to make any progress towards a sense of calm. Stress and anxiety cause damage to the neural connections in your brain, making it harder to concentrate and potentially contributing to depression. You literally forget how to calm down. Things just get worse and worse.

So how can you break the cycle?

NetCredit collated studies and research on mindfulness, anxiety, multi-tasking, sociology, neurology, stress, leadership, sleep and productivity to identify tips that help readers who feel overwhelmed – both ​right now and tips to help readers stay in control ​in the future.