Sep 26 2008
I Can’t Do It All!
Like most of you, I lead a busy life. I have a husband, a full time job, a home to manage, writing interests and I’m usually enrolled in one or more classes at a time in one of my various interests. I have to manage all of this in the same 24 hours per day that everyone has with which to work.
I can’t do it all!
I can’t. I never could. It used to bother me. It doesn’t any more. The reason being, I have developed a relatively new philosophy of life over the last few years. I like to call this philosophy “Evidence of Effort.” What I mean by this is that, while it is usually clear to myself and everyone around me that I have left many tasks unfinished, there is always plenty of evidence that “I’m working on it.” I prefer not to think of this as spreading myself too thin but, rather, that I put a percentage of my energies into everything that requires my attention. Eventually the percentages will add up to 100% and a task will be complete. In the meantime, for anyone who cares to look, there is evidence that I have paid attention and put some effort into accomplishing my goals.
If I ignore something that requires my attention, I obviously don’t think it’s important. If I can provide “evidence of effort” it shows that I do care enough to want to devote some time and energy to the task at hand.
