every day i’m scramblin’
anyone else feel overwhelmed all the time? i’ve been trying (mentally) to pare down my commitments, to simplify. but every time i think i’m sucessfully dropping one major project, two more take its place. the time immediately following a meeting is when my mind races with ideas to implement for that meeting’s projects, but before i can, i’m off to another meeting for another project — the freshness of the ideas fades, dulls, and eventually just drifts away. company branding, company fundraising, company programming, other company fundraiser, board development, other org media strategy, marketing brainstorms, content, website redesign, photos, copy, promotional printing, campaign printing, pitch books, show concepts, scripts, other company event planning, video production… all the while not actually doing any of these really well because i’m constantly overcomitted. and yeah, all this is for three orgs i work for essentially for free. this doesn’t include a stich of work i do at my day job.
this isn’t complaining, this is a plea for empathy. i’m not the only one who does this, am i? my only hope is to accept that it will always be this way, or make strides to pare down for real. posting this is a call to hold me accountable. if goals not published only succeed 2% of the time, and goals published succeed 85% of the time … well, then consider this a chance to say ‘neener-neener’ if i’m making the same statements in a year.
