Too much to do & not enough time to do it...

The ultimate problem - too little time & too much to get done.
Answers: Prioritize, delegate, ignore, work faster, choose high impact, sacrifice from personal time...
The problem I see is that no matter what I do, I must make a choice but if I have no time to think & the pile is so big I can't see over it how do I take the time to make the choice?

So I come to the real reason I'm in this mess - courage is fleeting. When I'm tired, I'm more likely to try to push thru rather then stop, think, have the courage to make the necessary decisions. When the phone doesn't stop ringing, when the line up by my cube is 2 deep, when the bakery calls complaining that their number dispenser is missing again - I start worrying and digging deeper and not making those hard choices.

I don't know if you have similar experiences, but when I have the courage to say no, when I have the courage to not attend the endless meetings and stop and think about what I should be doing, when I have the courage to push the keyboard back, stare at the sky, sketch on the white board - this is when I really get the most quality work done and feel best at the end of the day.

So after all grumbling and wishing for more help subsides, I send you all wishes of courage (and strength to act on that courage).