Think About It

Every so often I will have one of the moments where I will feel like I am on the verge of shutting down. It usually happens when I have been going at a pretty good clip, then someone asks me to do one more thing. I can feel the muscles in my jaws tighten and a pain radiating from the top of my head into my shoulders and down through my back. When I get to this point I typically think, don’t people realize that they are asking too much from me? Don’t they know how much I have going on? It is interesting that, when I am in the right frame of reference, the answer is “No, they don’t!”. The people who are asking something of me have no clue what I have been doing – they aren’t intentionally overloading me – they are just making a request of me. Interestingly, the only person who can control the pressures of my schedule is me. I am the one who has the insight into how full my plate is and when I need to take a breather. The problem is I am not very good at it! Whether it is fueled