185: Karolyn Vreeland Blume is a recovering attorney and mediator, who is now a personal development speaker, writer and consultant, and will discuss overcoming overwhelm.

Karolyn Blume is an expert problem solver and a gifted strategist. After a long career in law and mediation, she uses her keen insight as a speaker, writer and consultant. She has served as an adjunct professor at several colleges, and is a founder of “Mediators Beyond Borders International.” She lives and works in the Washington, DC area, where she uses the tools in her book on a daily basis.

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Fail fast to succeed faster

• Karolyn shares that early in her career she learned that asking for help makes thing a lot easier and smoother.

Tell us something good

• Karolyn mediated a large class action case involving doctors and insurance carriers.  She helped get the matter resolved which was a huge success for her, the court and the litigants.

Tell us about your book?

• Karolyn’s newly released book Eat the Elephant: Overcoming Overwhelm offers her time tested tools to help you overcome the overwhelm in your life.  Examples of these tools include:
  • If you were brought up in a house where perfection was sought after then your constant chase of perfection will likely lead to overwhelm.  Sometimes you have to set aside perfection to complete things.
  • Don’t “Should” on yourself.  If you have ever said to yourself, “I should do this…” that is a convenient path to overwhelm.
  • Set attainable priorities.  Choose your top three to do’s for the day and complete them.

Favorite Books:

• Eat the Elephant: Overcoming OverwhelmIf you’ve ever felt buried in an endless to-do list, or so busy that you can’t even find your to-do list, you know overwhelm. Overwhelm sucks all the joy out of your days, keeps you stressed out, worried, and feeling behind. It’s become a way of life. Attorney and consultant Karloyn Vreeland Blume shares her time-tested tools for eliminating overwhelm and perfectionism, served up with a dash of laughter. When you finish this book, you’ll have renewed confidence in your ability to not only cope the demands of your busy life, but to master them. A must- read for anyone who is in overwhelm and desperately seeks a usable solution. ~Kathleen Gage, author of Power Up for Profits

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