Handling a high workload can be a very emotionally charged experience requiring emotional resilience.

Staying content, productive, and emotionally healthy while busy and handling all your many responsibilities without feeling overwhelmed is a sign of a great emotional self-management.

Let's learn how to stop the feeling of being overwhelmed by a heavy workload:

• Be active and healthy: Being healthy is so important in managing a busy life and responsibilities. It is harder if you have a headache or flu or backache to avoid becoming stressed. So take care of yourself: your children deserve it, your colleagues need it, and you will be happier because of it. The busier you are the more important it is that you eat healthy food--no junk, all good food so that you take care of your mental and physical health. Desiring a work-life balance requires you to take care of your body, mind, and spirit. Just because you feel tired and cannot be bothered to exercise does not mean you shouldn't do it.
• Be positive: Ditch negativity, complaining, and anger. These negative emotions don't make you happy and increase the stress load. Instead, on a daily basis train yourself to incline towards positivity and gratitude. Negative emotions, such as resentment, frustration, and anger only add to stress. Do not feed your feelings of being overwhelmed by more negative feelings. It is typical of low emotional intelligence people.
• Sort demands into areas: Separating demands into different areas reduces the feeling of being overwhelmed by work. I find this stops me from getting overwhelmed by how much there is to do. As I can move from one section to another instead of seeing it all in one overwhelming mass. In contrast, if I don't have these groups, I end up looking at one big, incredibly long to-do list and freak out. Separating out demands helps to manage emotions. It is an essential emotional intelligence skill.
• Do the priorities: Your next step is to identify the priority tasks in each area. And do only the priorities. Each day I identify the number-1 priority in each area and do that. I try to do the priorities first before any unimportant nice-to-do things. Knowing your priorities is being emotionally intelligent. Are you doing your priorities? Do you even stop to ask yourself what they are?
• Change priorities at any moment: Be flexible, your priorities are not set in stone. Be prepared to change priorities at any moment. It is impossible to always know in advance what the priorities are. I, therefore, decide what my priorities are, each day, (or even each hour):
  • First: Decide which of the areas of the work are the key priority that day
  • Second: Prioritize the chores in that area
  • Third: Do it

Once done I check out and move on to other sections. Be prepared to change priorities at any moment. Being willing to re-evaluate very often is vital. Rigidity only builds stress. This is emotional intelligence in action. How flexible are you? Are you clinging to your plan? Be prepared to change priorities at any moment.