Are you doing too much?

[bleedingheart]

Do you ever feel like you have just taken on too much and you want to stop the train and get off?

I am so tired but I have so many obligations right now that I want to run away...

I am not really complaining as much as I can't understand why everything that goes awry does so at the same time...

and right now I should be finishing my final assessment of the over 100 recipes I typed in for the democratic cookbook we are doing to raise money for the 2004 presidential election... but I am lurking here instead....UGGGHHH!!! so if you see me posting tell me to go back to my chores....

[Indiana_Dem]

1. I'm a daily listmaker and I've only done 2 out of 7 things today

on my list!! Oh well, just gives me something more to do tomorrow!

[bleedingheart]

3. if i wrote it all down it would be more depressing...

:silly:

[Bertha Venation]

2. I'm done doing too much.

I just signed up to remove other peoples' trash from 1.5 miles of a two-lane country road for a year, and fear just that will overwhelm me.

I quit doing too much when I left Southern California. Seven years with a non-profit community chorus -- three on the board of directors -- that was enough for me. It seemed like it never ended.

Care for a tiny bit of free advice? Say "no" sometimes. No one who matters will think less of you for it, and the people who think less of you don't matter (or shouldn't).

:hug: Hang in there, BH.

[bleedingheart]

4. I know you are right

saying no would really help me out....that or I will ignore phone calls....

[Bertha Venation]

7. here's an idea

Choose one thing you're involved in right now that you can finish. For example: You've done an annual bake sale for fifteen years.

Sometimes you just bake, sometimes you sell, and sometimes you organize the whole thing. The event is coming up in May. Start telling everyone in the group that this is your last one. Be FIRM. If they try to tell you "but it'll fall apart without you" ignore that. They may not realize it but they're trying to GUILT you into staying on. Do not be sucked into the guilt trap!

Keep reminding people this is your last one. If there's an organizational meeting, announce it. And imagine how much more you can charge for the cookies & pies you sell if you tag them "Bleeding Heart's Last Bake Sale!!"

:shrug: Can this translate into anything you're doing, that you can let go of?

[bleedingheart]

9. oh big time

there is this one event I am helping with that will definitely be my last....plus I know that some of this is just seasonal and due to the election...

but boy when it rains it pours....

thanks for the advice!

bleedingheart...going back to editing..like a dutiful drone.. :silly:

[LastKnight]

5. alarm goes off at 6 am, go thru day, stay up till 3 working on homework...

rinse, repeat the next day... these advanced classes are killin me, but i love the challange(i especially like the advanced physics course). add into that my part time job and my OTHER regular classes, id say yea, im a bit overextended but ive made it fine since august, whats 2 more months gonna hurt me? thank god for insomnia, if i needed a regular 'healthy' ammount of sleep every night id be screwed.

-LK

[bleedingheart]

6. I am glad to hear you are coping with it

but I reserve all my extra work for when the kids are in bed which extends my getting to bed time way past where it should be for me to get some sleep...and I am getting old and I need my sleep or else the children could tie me up, take over the house and order candy online...hahahaha

[LastKnight]

10. heheh

well i hope your workload lightens up for ya soon.

-LK

[Kathleen04]

13. That's great that you like the challenge!

My classes this year are soooo boring..I can't even begin to describe the boredom, I'm taking 2 AP classes but they're not very interesting or challenging in a way that I can tangibly improve.

I wish I could take on more hobby oriented type stuff but I'm not very good at balance.

[Bonhomme Richard]

8. Yes I do but I made this bed so I will.............

lie in it. Sometimes the only reasonable choice is to stick with it.

[BiggJawn]

11. I keep cutting stuff loose and it doesn't help.

I'm almost to the place where I really DO just "Eat, sleep, shit, and work" but I'm still tired and feel like I don't have any time to enjoy life...

Maybe I'll say something to my doctor next month?

[SarahB]

12. I'm a Type A

I thrive doing lots of stuff. I wake up every day after about 6 hours sleep and am busy all day long. Then when the dust settles in the late evening, so I'm not further bored, I get to come here before bed. My life is very busy and I NEED it like that.

[put out]

14. You do? Lucky Duck.

I have to juggle way too many balls. No SEX THREADS. Obligations, commitments, duties.

Six hours is good.

Nothing personal (yes it is) are you studying to nurse?

[SarahB]

15. I'm studying to BE a nurse!

I think I'm probably done doing nurse as a verb. :7

[NicoleM]

16. I used to do that.

Got tired, stopped.

Seriously, I would keep going until I collapsed, emotionally if not physically. It's not a fun way to live life.

Is there anything I can help you with from here? I'm just sitting here waiting to have a baby, I've got nothing else to do all day until he decides to be born.