How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time.
There’s so much going on everywhere, at all times, now. Because now — the era we’re always living in — now includes all previous eras. That’s what that fella meant (or should have, anyway) when he said we’re at “the end of history”. It’s not that we’ve achieved the purpose or final point in time on a historical timeline; it’s that all previous history is piled up and ‘chunked’ as we move along from one present moment to the next. Is it surprising, then, that sometimes you get anxious and overwhelmed? The number of things vying for your attention is waaay more now than it was, say, before smartphones came out.
And so, if your project/paper/plan/recipe seems too much: breathe, and take it one bite at a time.