“Blogland” has been a distant star for me the last couple of months. That’s what happens when you sink into the abyss of “overwhelm.” Like many of us, I feel like the guy who appeared on the old Ed Sullivan show keeping all those plates spinning in the air. When one begins to wobble and head south this desperate man rushes to the rescue, only to be distracted by a new wobbler at the end of the row.
I love my life and what I do and the glorious people I get to hang out with day after day. I say “yes” because “yes” means life to me. But too much of a good thing is not a good thing.
The flu caught me around Thanksgiving and just this week, the first week in February, gave up its buggy grip. That’s a long run and through the busy holidays too. I show up for my gigs in December, all thirty of them. “Charm rather than perfection” comes in handy when your voice sounds like car tires over gravel. I don’t have enough oomph leftover to open the snail mail, or email, or check in on Facebook like the all-purpose entrepreneur I am supposed to be. Or return the phone calls from my family and friends.
What I do is Sudoku. At night as I lay next to my sleeping husband, I pull the bedspread over my head, perch the tiny LED flashlight under my chin and chip away at the daily Sudoku I clip from the The Los Angeles Times every morning. Once in a while I defeat the “diabolical” ones but mostly feel defeated by the “gentle” puzzles. Whatever the outcome, it doesn’t matter because just doing it is my sinful delight. It’s an easy distraction. Plus all that brain activity inexplicably puts me to sleep. Apparently irony is alive and well around here.
So today I’m still spinning the plates but at least I am feeling better. And I’m realizing it’s time to delegate, to hand over some plates to someone else even though I am insanely fond of “doing-doing-doing,” whatever that “doing” is. I even love making lists of “things to do.” Surprise, surprise…
The problem is there are only twenty-four hours in a day and this time, next century, none of us will be here. So how do we work joyfully? And smart?
Delegate…
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