I've just got back to work and am completely swamped when it comes to my life at the moment. Then, just to make matters worse I have some family matters to deal with that are rapidly turning very ugly, and our house is still in bits with the renovations. Nothing like a challenge to make you wonder where to next...
I am going through periods of anxiety, stressing that I will not get to everything, but at the end of the day I can only do what I can get to with the time and the resources I have available. I must say Autofocus is helping me there. As long as I capture everything I need to do, and work through my list at least once per day, I will keep finding things to progress and sometimes even get them completed. Even if I do not get everything I would like to get done completed within the day I would prefer, I at least know it is there and can look at it again the next day.
I've been in this place before and it nearly beat me. It didn't beat me then, and I won't let it beat me now.
Taking just a few minutes to knock out this blog has helped me. Yes, I could have spent these ten minutes doing something else, but it is nearly bed time here, and the simple act of writing this has reminded me that I do have a system to capture everything, and all I can do is work through it with the time I have. Trust the system, and it will look after me.
Good luck if you are just returning to the grind after taking some leave for the holidays, and hopefully you don't have quite as many challenges coming in on separate fronts as I do at the moment.
Later.
