How to Be More Productive When You Feel Overwhelmed: 7 CEO Habits That Changed How I Work Have you ever had so much to do that you ended up doing… absolutely nothing? Not because you're lazy. Not because you don't care. Not because you don't have goals.You're just overwhelmed.  You have emails to answer, content to create, laundry to fold, appointments to remember, bills to pay, people texting you, ideas bouncing around your head, and approximately 47 things you swore you were going to get done today. So what happens? You sit down. You open your phone "for five minutes." An hour disappears. Now you're frustrated with yourself because you haven't gotten anything done, which somehow makes you even less motivated to start. I've been there. And for a long time, I thought my problem was that I needed more discipline. I didn't. I needed a better system. The biggest shift for me happened when I stopped thinking about productivity as "How much ...