There appears to be multiple things piling up on my desk and I’ll admit I’ve dropped the ball on my pacing for getting stuff done. Yesterday I talked about transitions and the transition from Lent to Easter is a doosy. It’s left me feeling like I’m behind. What I try to do when I get overwhelmed, is lock my office door, hide under my desk and cry, telling the badness to go away. No, in reality I just try to slow things down, take a deep breath and slowly but surely get back to my pace. To go at everything at light speed would only cause for more burnout and more worry.
I equate the situation to when I’m trying to maintain a certain pace on a run, if I fall behind that pace the worse thing for me to do would try and get it all back at once, but if I make slow and slight improvements in my pace I’m expediting less energy and sooner than later chip away at the deficit. It’s essentially putting together a plan. Sometimes we can go all out and attach a deficit, race to catch up because in the end it’s all in or nothing. But when it comes to getting back to a work pace it’s important to remain calm and slowly but surely chip away at the pile, you’ll get there, it’s kind of that saying, “Slow and steady wins the race.”