Knowing that no matter what you do, you’re only one person and only have 24 hours in a day and seven days a week,  (Although my better half hates Monday and has declared it technically a six day week with First Tuesday, Second Tuesday and then the rest of the days.  – thank you Ms Sheila!)  it’s time to accept it and stop killing yourself trying to multi-task, take on more than you can do and start “smelling the roses”.

I’ve been out of town for the better part of the last week and as I’m rushing to write this morning’s blog, I’m haunted by the monkey on my back – all the things I want to do today.  A few are procrastination projects that I should have done days ago and the rest are simply in the queue and need to get done.  But, we’re all just one person and we can only do so much before we implode.

So, this morning’s blog is more for my personal therapy than for my readers, but I’m hoping that you’ll get something from the process I put in place yesterday.  I’ve got a list for today – just a good old fashioned hand-written piece of paper with the things I want to get done.  Yes, I’m going to make it that simple – just knock ‘em off one at a time and celebrate when I’m done or for that matter, even if I’m not.

There’s a great piece of advice thousands of us claim to have been told by a mentor along the way in reference to paperwork, “Touch each piece of paper that comes across your desk only once – make the decisions it requires you to do and then move on.”  Well, none of us deal in paper anymore, but it applies to every email, Tweet, facebook friend, etc.  Read them once, decide on the course of action, respond and move on!

And for those of you, like me, who often feel overwhelmed about not having enough time to get the things done you want:

“You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future!”

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