Overload

I haven't posted much, lately. Well, to be more precise, nothing for a few days. What with taking a holiday and being busy, it's been rather hectic.

I was reading, this morning, that we lead very busy lives. And, with an increased workload, it can only result in being overloaded. It's easy to burn out.

It's also easy to forget what's important. That's why we need a clear focus. We need to determine our priorities. As I once read, if we're going to climb the ladder, we'd better make sure it's against the right wall!

That's not as easy as it sounds. We fool ourselves into thinking that some things are vital to our existance. Yet, the very word vital comes from a Latin word meaning life. What? Would we die if we didn't have a widescreen plasma TV? Would our lives literally come to an end if we didn't have a car? Yet, all the time that we are spending on accumulating these things, we are losing our families.

What's most important to us?

That's where a journal can help. It helps us to sort through our priorities. It helps us to analyze ourselves to see where our priorities lie. It helps us to see what's important.

And it helps us to cope with the overload.