Tunnel Vision

Be warned: unfiltered thoughts!

I have abandoned my blog for a few days and feel GUILTY! Why have I abandoned my dear blog?

Easy Answer: Tunnel Vision

In a matter of hours, my life went from simple and calm to a perfect storm. It’s hard to even clarify what that means since I tend to compartmentalize my life. I do this because I’m not sure how to describe everything that I do and how they all fit together.

I often wish I had a simple answer when people ask, “what do you do?” I usually make something up or pick one of my various roles.

So back to my perfect storm:

- photo “emergency” with my book

- book sales’ project to complete within a week

- research proposal needed all of my attention

- statistics final exam moved up a week (to next week — I don’t do well with final exam surprises!)

That’s just the tip of the iceberg, but I wanted to let it out on here because I’ve been dreading to do so. I am absolutely overwhelmed. I am also incredibly passionate about the work that I’m doing which makes prioritizing very difficult.

So for the next week I’m going into hyper focused mode and will try to get through this little bump as calmly as I can. And lots of coffee with help :).

So here goes an experiment: overwhelmed + autheticity = ?

I’ll let you know the results!

A link I found last night describing the pre-publication process for anyone who is interested!

Related "ripples" you might enjoy:

1. Living Your Vision: Carrie McCarthy
2. 10 Steps for Overcoming Overwhelm
3. Living Your Vision: Christine Mason Miller
4. …{Kindred}…
5. Trying to Stay Afloat

Tags: Authenticity, book publishing, graduate school

This entry was posted on Saturday, January 10th, 2009 at 2:46 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Tunnel Vision”

1. Ben
   Twitter: benspoont
   says:

   01.10.2009 at 3:45 pm

   I’ll supply the coffee.

   Stay authentic and the important things will come to the surface.

   Reply
2. Sarah Hope says:

   01.11.2009 at 4:57 pm

   Do I get to comment as well as read? :) I think you become authentic the minute you acknowledge and share that you’re overwhelmed; hence blog confession=authenticity. I’m thinking about you this week!

   Reply
3. clrsimple
   Twitter: carolynr
   says:

   01.11.2009 at 5:47 pm

   Awww Sarah Hope — you made my day :) … You are such a wonderful friend! I’m so grateful that we are together on this journey — five years!!

   Reply