The eternal balancing act
I have always been inclined to bite off more than I can chew. Having too much to do if you get it right is energising and exciting and gives your life zip and zoom. Having too much to do if you get it wrong is overwhelming and exhausting and makes you want to hide in the lavatories and have a quiet weep. Mostly I used to get it right. Then for a few years I tried to do way too much and had a constant battle to keep any kind of balance between my work and my family life and found that niceties like a social life and time for myself disappeared out the window. Now having given up my job I supposedly have all the time in the world. This is never the case of course. You just do lots more of the things that you choose to do, and if you are a person with a tendency to load a lot on your plate, you carry on doing that, just different and perhaps more self indulgent things. Now, however, I think I should admit that maybe I ought to be getting to the e...