Sometimes life overwhelms you with more things than you’re capable of handling.
There are only 24 hours in a day, and despite what superachievers say, you can’t add more with superhuman willpower.
It’s stressful, demoralizing, and scary to have more things you need to do than time to do them in.
Or to have a huge mountain of tasks that seems like it will never be done.
This is something I have a lot of experience with, due to my background in tech startups.
I’m used to having some disastrous crisis every single day – sometimes five at once – while simultaneously doing the work of 8 people, developing new systems for rapidly growing companies that were inventing products and services nobody had ever done before, teaching myself how to do jobs way outside my area of expertise as I was doing them, and having to juggle the finances of companies that were perpetually running out of money.… Read more