Too many things to do ..... too little time

“I try not to look at my schedule for the week because I get so overwhelmed. Every day, there are multiple things to be done and many things end up pending.” – Hilary Duff

If you are like most people, you will most certainly be troubled by this issue. It is a universal problem.

 
Too many things to do and too little time.

It feels like the world should stop for some time for you to get on top of your work.
Or the day should have more than 24 hours for you to cope up with.

You are overwhelmed.
This is the commonest cause of stress.
How do you manage this situation?

Should you ignore the situation and be resigned to fate?......in which case you will have no control over the situation and you will be stressed……..which most of us are most of the time.

Or should you struggle to overcome the situation and get on top of the situation?

The first step is to have a system for writing down whatever work is to be done. Getting the work out of your mind will relieve you.

The second step is to prioritise...arrange the tasks in the order of their value to you.
Sometimes the priorities may be very clear. You will have no difficulty in assigning the value.

At times everything may seem important and it may be difficult to prioritise. When you have difficulty in assigning the value it will not matter how you assign...assign randomly...you can always change it later.
So now you have a list of jobs to be done.

The third step is to do the task that you have decided in the order of importance. The easy tasks will get done but you may have resistance to many tasks in the list.

How do you tackle the tasks for which you have resistance?

I will answer it in another post. :)