Brandon Coppernoll Web content management, internet marketing and social media in Indiana

HOW TO: Scale the proverbial “brick wall”

My wife will be the first to tell you at times I take on too much. I am one of those people that can easily fall into the trap of being too busy. My mind goes a million miles per hour, and sometimes I conveniently forget where the brake is and go full speed into an organizational nightmare wall. Luckily I'm usually perceptive enough to know when I've actually hit that wall.

For me a lack of organization causes anxiety in my personal life and career. I like to have focus. I like to be able to look at an objective and almost "see" the path I need to take to reach that goal. Sometimes chasing too many objectives causes the paths to cross or even worse become lost in all of the hustle.

So what do you do when you have hit the brick wall? What do you do when you realize that you've taken on too much? Here's what I've done in the past:

• Slow down! Take things one day at a time.
• Slim down! Organize your goals into smaller groups or specific time lines. Don't try to do too much at any given time.
• Focus! In your career or even family life it's too easy to try to multitask to make sure that everything gets done. Sometimes it's okay if today something does not get done while the other things you do are actually getting accomplished. It's better to have one or two goals met than six unfinished goals.

I'm at a point in my life where I need to step back, re-evaluate and lay the groundwork to topple that "brick wall". I need to focus on one career goal and one family goal for the time being. Once I accomplish those I am going to move on. In my day-to-day proceedings I will be doing the same but on a much smaller scale.

How do you know when you've hit your wall? What do you do to scale it or topple it over?

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