Overwhelm Reset Planner Spreadsheet - Google Sheets & Excel ADHD Planner

Clear the mental load and build a realistic plan with the SheetSmithery Overwhelm Reset Planner. This connected Google Sheets and Excel system gives you one place to unload tasks, worries, commitments, and open loops. It then helps you separate what must happen now from what can be reduced, delegated, deferred, or dropped. Instead of treating every item as equally urgent, the planner helps you shrink your active workload, protect your capacity, and keep unresolved reminders somewhere trusted outside your main task list. **WHAT'S INCLUDED** - 1 premium Overwhelm Reset Planner XLSX workbook (compatible with Excel & Google Sheets) - 10 connected workbook tabs - Quick Start Guide PDF - 6-page Goodnotes-friendly Overwhelm Reset Companion PDF - 5-Minute Overwhelm Reset bonus PDF - Read Me - Personal Use Licence **MAIN FEATURES** - Single Overwhelm Dump master list - Must / Should / Could triage - Pressure and control dropdowns - Automatic urgency and load scores - Automatic reset destination: Do Now, Next, Later, Reduce, Delegate, Drop / Park - Ready / Clarify / Make Smaller / Wait flags - Now • Next • Later view - Capacity Planner & Buffer planning - Reduce & Delegate tracker - 5-, 10- and 20-minute Reset Routine - Open Loops tracker - Weekly Review - Dashboard with KPI cards and live charts - Conditional formatting and dropdowns - Realistic sample data - Premium gridline-free design **HOW IT WORKS** 1. Empty everything competing for attention into the Overwhelm Dump. 2. Mark each item as Must, Should, or Could. 3. Add pressure, control, estimated minutes, due date, and a clear next action. 4. The workbook calculates urgency, load score, and a reset destination. 5. Use Reset Sort to see what belongs in Do Now, Next, Reduce, Delegate, or Later. 6. Keep your active list intentionally small in Now Next Later. 7. Check the Capacity Planner before adding more work back in. 8. Move reminders and unresolved items into Open Loops. 9. Use the Reset Routine whenever everything starts to feel equally urgent. 10. Review what reduced the pressure at the end of the week. **KEY INTERACTIVE FEATURES** **OVERWHELM DUMP:** Enter each item once and let the workbook calculate urgency, load score, reset destination, and a simple action flag. **RESET SORT:** Automatically groups work into clear action zones: Do Now • Next • Reduce • Delegate • Defer • Drop / Park. **NOW • NEXT • LATER:** A deliberately smaller view that stops the full master list competing for attention at once. **CAPACITY PLANNER:** Set your focus minutes available, current energy, minimum buffer, and maximum number of active items. The planner then shows: Usable minutes, NOW planned minutes, Remaining capacity, and Capacity status. **REDUCE & DELEGATE:** Create a smaller version, delegate the work, defer it, drop it, or renegotiate the commitment. **RESET ROUTINE:** Choose a 5-, 10- or 20-minute reset using five simple stages: Empty • Label • Reduce • Choose • Start. **OPEN LOOPS:** Give reminders, waiting items, ideas, decisions, and follow-ups somewhere trusted to live outside your active task list. **DASHBOARD:** See open items, Must items, Do Now work, open loops, delegation candidates, reduction candidates, NOW minutes, capacity status, and visual reset summaries. **GOODNOTES BONUS** A separate 6-page Goodnotes-friendly companion PDF is included for handwriting or tablet-based planning. Pages include: - Overwhelm Brain Unload - Must • Should • Could Triage - Now • Next • Later - Capacity Reset - Reduce • Delegate • Defer • Drop - Weekly Overwhelm Reset You also receive a separate one-page 5-Minute Overwhelm Reset. The PDF can also be used with other PDF annotation apps such as Notability. The interactive spreadsheet itself is not a Goodnotes file. **WHO IT'S FOR** - Busy professionals, students, freelancers, parents, and households - Anyone managing too many open tasks at once - Ideal for ADHD-friendly or executive-function-friendly planning - Anyone who wants a calmer alternative to a long to-do list **EXCEL + GOOGLE SHEETS** The workbook is supplied as an XLSX file, compatible with both Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. You will need a free Google account or a version of Microsoft Excel to use the main spreadsheet. The PDF bonus files can be opened with any PDF reader (e.g., Adobe Acrobat Reader). **IMPORTANT** This is a digital product; no physical item will be shipped. Due to the digital nature, all sales are final, and no refunds can be issued. This template is for personal use only and may not be redistributed or resold.