Breaking Free from Overwhelm: The Power of Small Steps
Dec 09, 2025Summary
Are you paralyzed by overwhelm when it comes to moving forward? You have the idea, but the first step feels impossible. In this powerful, practical episode, host Tamara K. Anderson reveals a revolutionary three-part formula designed to smash through that paralysis and build unstoppable Christian women's momentum.
The secret? Action breeds ideas, not the other way around.
We dive into the first principle: taking the smallest manageable step. Board member Leisa Watkins explains why the fear of the unknown often traps us and how tiny acts of obedience are the true way forward. Next, Tamara shares her "Office Revelation"—the unexpected divine direction to simply clean her messy office—which led to a major business pivot and a beautiful domino effect of clarity. This unexpected anecdote proves that God rewards effort in any area of your life.
Finally, we hear from Leisa and Sandy Falter on why imperfect action is the absolute prerequisite for receiving more guidance and gifts, drawing powerful lessons from the Parable of the Talents. Stop waiting for the grand plan or the perfect moment. If you are struggling to find Christian women's momentum in your life or business, this episode provides the encouragement and the simple, proven steps to start moving today. Don't let indecision steal your momentum—learn how cultivating Christian women's momentum leads to miracles!
Takeaways
- Overcoming feelings of overwhelm often requires embracing the smallest manageable step toward progress.
- The unexpected revelation of cleaning one's office can catalyze significant momentum and clarity in business decisions.
- Action, even in its most imperfect form, serves as the necessary precursor for receiving divine guidance and inspiration.
- It is crucial for women to recognize that waiting for the perfect moment can hinder their progress; instead, they should act on what they can do now.
- Identifying and executing the simplest task placed on one's heart is the key to building momentum and moving forward effectively.
- We must learn to be flexible and responsive to divine promptings, often manifesting in the form of minor yet impactful actions.
Links referenced in this episode:
- bizlogic.com
- womenwarriorsoflight.com
- Next episode recommendation: How Christian Women Gain Momentum: https://youtu.be/QO6iiyd3TlY
- Get our Clarifying My Calling Workbook free here: https://www.womenwarriorsoflight.com/offers/6c8GbbHE/checkout
Transcript
Tamara K. Anderson
00:00:01.440 - 00:01:04.850
Ladies, are you paralyzed by overwhelm? You've got like your to do list.
You've got in your mind how everything is going to play out and you go to take the first step and you're like, it's too much. I just can't do it. I don't even know how to start. It's just too overwhelming. If you've ever felt that way, you are certainly not alone.
What if the most important step you can take right now is also the smallest? Stay tuned because in this episode we're going to cover this revolutionary concept that action breeds ideas.
And by the end of this three part formula, you'll know how to break through paralysis with one simple step. Are you a woman who knows God is calling you to something more, but you're unsure where to start or how to grow it into something impactful?
You are not alone and you're in the right place.
Intro/Outro/Ad
00:01:05.490 - 00:01:50.150
Welcome to the Arise Women of God podcast, a show for Christian women who feel called to shine his light and step into their divine purpose.
Each week you'll hear stories of faithful women, both from the Bible and today, who heard God's voice and chose to say yes even when it felt uncomfortable or uncertain. To step with faith into the unknown.
You'll walk away with encouragement, spiritual insight and practical steps to follow those holy promptings in your own life. So let's arise together as women warriors of light. Let's do it God's way. God's strong.
Tamara K. Anderson
00:01:50.150 - 00:01:52.110
Welcome to the Arise Women of God podcast. I'm your host, Tamara K Anderson. Ladies. And I'm so excited to have you here today. You're here because you've been overwhelmed, right?
Believe me, it is something that's very common, especially this time of the year. Okay, before we dive into our episode today, I have to do a quick shout out to one of our endorsed provider sponsors for Women Warriors of Light.
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Tamara K. Anderson
00:03:33.810 - 00:04:43.800
So today we're going to talk about three key things to help you overcome overwhelm and help you build momentum so that it's kind of breaking you out of that paralysis. Right? Because sometimes we do we get so paralyzed. First, we're going to give you the secret to unlocking momentum. And this involves ding, ding, ding.
No planning and no grand ideas. Pretty good, right? Second, you'll hear a story about how cleaning a messy office led to a major business pivot. Crazy, right?
And third, we'll finally reveal why waiting for the right idea is sometimes the biggest mistake we make as women in. So let's kick it off with that first principle, the smallest manageable step. Okay.
Our board member, Leisa Watkins reminds us that the fear of the unknown is often what traps us. We've got this idea in our head and it just. There's something scary about it. Right.
And that it's important for us to embrace small, manageable steps as the way forward. Let's listen to what Leisa shares here.
Leisa Watkins
00:04:44.120 - 00:05:10.130
Yeah, for me, it's, this is good strategy anytime, whether things are looking overwhelming or not. It's just, what's the first.
What's the very next first step I can take that's small and just push it that way because I think we oftentimes think we have to have everything all figured out before we act, which is not the case. So just taking that was the first step that I can take right here. And it's manageable that way.
Tamara K. Anderson
00:05:10.530 - 00:07:45.280
Awesome. So tip number one, taking that smallish manageable step, totally doable. Right, ladies, let's go to step number two.
And this we're going to call the office revelation.
When I was overwhelmed a couple months ago and praying for direction on the next big move for women warriors of light, the answer I received was unexpected yet profound. Listen to what God told me to do next. I know.
As I was getting ready to kind of sit down and kind of just look at all of our options and choices as women warriors of light, I was like, dear God, help me to figure this out, you know, and. And what is my. What's the right thing for me to do next? And. And he just said, clean your office. I'm like, got it.
But it's amazing how that just started a ball that kind of has.
It's kind of given me a fresh new Start, like, I even took down my vision board, took off things that weren't pertinent anymore, started putting things up back on. It kind of spiraled into something that has just been a beautiful domino effect of, okay, it's a new little phase and it's going to look different.
And that's awesome. And it's great. And I'm just like, oh, wow. So cleaning my office really was the right first step. You know, it's crazy, right?
Sometimes we think, okay, we're going to have a big pivot. We're going to do this thing. And really the thing that helps us build momentum is something very, very small, and it's easy to do.
Onto step number three, we're going to talk about here how action is rewarded. So taking action, even if it's imperfect action, ladies, which I know some of you are like, but it's not perfect. It's okay, it's okay.
Just get over that part. That is the prerequisite for receiving more guidance. Let me repeat that again.
Taking action, even if it's imperfect action, is the prerequisite for receiving more guidance. So the key there is action. Right here.
Two of our board members, Leisa Watkins and Sandy Falter, are going to share why effort and movement are essential to getting those good ideas and gifts from God. We all like gifts, right? So let's take a listen.
Leisa Watkins
00:07:45.920 - 00:08:51.650
So I think gifts are one of those things where he's given us some, you know, some basic gifts. And then I think that those that are actually using their gifts are the ones that are going to get more of them more easily, right?
Because I mean, it actually says that in the scriptures. And I think that's why people who are out all the time out taking action are the ones that are getting the good ideas all the time.
I think God will send the ideas to the people who are actually taking action on it. And even if you're taking action, that may not be the right action.
I think that taking action is rewarded and you may, may go down a path and all of a sudden God will tell you, okay, that's enough. I'm like, but wait a minute, you sent me on this path. And.
And then sometimes like, yeah, but you've gone far down this path as I required of you to do, and now you can switch paths.
And so it kind of comes down again to almost that that first step is making sure you're taking that first step, because it's often the part that's the scariest. And once you take action and start doing those things, the Small steps. It's going to become easier and easier and easier.
So if we can help people understand that, I think that'll be important.
Tamara K. Anderson
00:08:52.530 - 00:08:56.570
I love that Sandy. Looked like you had another thought.
Sandy Falter
00:08:56.570 - 00:10:03.450
I do. When you were talking, made me think of the parable, of the talents, and also God. We've been told to, to seek miracles to and.
And Jesus, when he had to feed the 4,000 plus followers that have been following him for three days, he said, bring what you have. And the offering was so meager. And the Scriptures tell us in Matthew that he took it and he gave thanks and a miracle followed.
And I think that, you know, pulling in that gratitude for what we have, that's being a good steward over the gifts that he's given us. And if we can be good stewards over those gifts, he will magnify, he will give us abundantly. But we have to take action.
We have to do something with the gifts we've already been given and then it'll be multiplied and, and that miracle can happen in our life. I've seen that. I've seen that in my life. When I'm not doing anything, it's nothing's growing.
But when I start, then other opportunities start coming and I'm able to develop more gifts and have more opportunities because of the action. So I think the Lord loves effort, right? He loves us to take action and do our part and he'll make up the difference.
Tamara K. Anderson
00:10:04.250 - 00:11:47.250
All right, guys, we've given you three wonderful ideas here. Taking the smallest manageable step, the office revelation about sometimes just tidying can help us with that overwhelm.
And third, that action, even though it's imperfect, helps us move forward with momentum. So the application here is simple. Do the next right thing. Stop waiting for the perfect moment or the grand plan.
Identify the single smallest, most manageable task God has placed on your heart today. Do it. Do it, lady. Momentum is created by small acts of obedience, not fixed, massive plans. And that is the beauty of it.
God teaches us to be flexible, to listen to his spirit, to take baby steps of action. Sometimes it's just text that friend or clean out that office right now that you know how to build momentum.
The next video I recommend is How Christian Women Gain Momentum to help you with growth and accountability. I'll tag that in a link below.
Also, you can download our free Clarifying My Calling workbook in the description below to help you identify and commit to your next small step that perhaps God is placing on your heart. Until next time. May God bless you to be brave and take those small steps of action through the overwhelm and on to what God is placing on your heart.
You can do it. I believe in you.
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00:11:47.250 - 00:12:42.480
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