First off, love the Hyperbole icon. Just gotta be said.
Second off, I actually totally sympathize with this mentality. Sometimes when you have so much stuff, all you want to do is just flip your shit and say, FUCK EVERYTHING! Even if half the things on the list are things you enjoy, are happy you're getting done, or have spent months WAITING for. The overwhelming feeling is so unpleasant. Sometimes it's easier to just repeat to yourself, little engine-that-could style, "I can do it, I can do it," than other times, when no matter how much you say that you can, you don't do it. =/
So, I wish you the best of luck with powering through this ugly month. Maybe it'd be helpful to schedule out December as well, and flip back and forth between November and December calendars to show how many things are really JUST this once? I don't know. I've never found one single system that worked for me for this kind of problem.
The only time in my life where I was really just able to power through 2 months of that kind of stuff was my last two months of pregnancy, when I just knew I had no choice if I was going to feel even remotely like I did my best for my baby. And I came into motherhood so burnt out that it's half a miracle I've gotten so far. If it had been for any other reason, I would have quit. Seriously. I just think that some of us aren't meant for those kinds of crazy busy schedules. My mom, on the complete other hand, lives and thrives for calendars full of appointments, tournaments, errands, chores, parties, events, dinners, etc every. day. of. the. week. Sometimes just hearing about her days makes me want to hide under the covers all day, Hyperbole style. (How sad are you that it's been almost a YEAR since the last update? T.T I am tres triste.)
Good luck! Remember to post pictures of progress on the tattoo!
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Date: 2012-11-27 05:07 am (UTC)Second off, I actually totally sympathize with this mentality. Sometimes when you have so much stuff, all you want to do is just flip your shit and say, FUCK EVERYTHING! Even if half the things on the list are things you enjoy, are happy you're getting done, or have spent months WAITING for. The overwhelming feeling is so unpleasant. Sometimes it's easier to just repeat to yourself, little engine-that-could style, "I can do it, I can do it," than other times, when no matter how much you say that you can, you don't do it. =/
So, I wish you the best of luck with powering through this ugly month. Maybe it'd be helpful to schedule out December as well, and flip back and forth between November and December calendars to show how many things are really JUST this once? I don't know. I've never found one single system that worked for me for this kind of problem.
The only time in my life where I was really just able to power through 2 months of that kind of stuff was my last two months of pregnancy, when I just knew I had no choice if I was going to feel even remotely like I did my best for my baby. And I came into motherhood so burnt out that it's half a miracle I've gotten so far. If it had been for any other reason, I would have quit. Seriously. I just think that some of us aren't meant for those kinds of crazy busy schedules. My mom, on the complete other hand, lives and thrives for calendars full of appointments, tournaments, errands, chores, parties, events, dinners, etc every. day. of. the. week. Sometimes just hearing about her days makes me want to hide under the covers all day, Hyperbole style. (How sad are you that it's been almost a YEAR since the last update? T.T I am tres triste.)
Good luck! Remember to post pictures of progress on the tattoo!