A Bad Habit
Posted by Rebecca Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:52:00 GMT
I have this bad habit of taking on way too many things.
The second I have any free time, I fill it with some kind of commitment, thinking “Oh, I have plenty of time to do this!”
And then four seconds later, I’m buried under four commitments and can’t see straight because I’m so busy all the time.
I don’t really intend to do this and perhaps it’s a sign of poor planning. What happens is I don’t remember from one second to the next what all I’ve committed to. And it’s not so much that I can’t say no. I say no all the time, especially to people (I am, after all, an introvert. The mere existence of other people on the planet exhausts me). It’s really just a matter of me wanting to do everything in less time than it probably takes to do it all.
Anyone else suffered from this in the past and overcome it? Is it really a matter of just becoming more organized?
I’m tired, folks. Way too tired for a woman of 27 who has no husband and no children. Something has got to change.
My advice? Take no advice from me. Or do as I say, not as I do. Really, though, having a lot of my plate invigorates me. It's only a couple of recent decisions that turned out not to be so great that have exhausted me; in general, I love it when my life is overflowing with activity. But I prefer a spontaneous overflowing, rather than a tightly scheduled abundance. I think that is the key for me - having a schedule that isn't so packed that I can't be spontaneous in my choice of activity.