The clock and the list
Are you obsessed with your watch? Constantly checking the time? Wondering if you are late, if you can squeeze in one more task, if you can exceed today’s expectations — only to end the day overwhelmed and completely drained? Yes? No? Well, let me tell you how I fell into the trap of time and my wonderful to-do list. Watching the time used to be crucial for me — maybe it still is, but definitely not the way it was before. Not to be late. To finish my work faster. To stay obsessed with schedules, especially when my little boy was a newborn. I was always on the run, watching the clock, making promises to myself — that I still had time, or pushing myself to hurry no matter the cost. And the cost was usually my mental health. Because I had to do it. Then there was the to-do list. Let me be clear — I still use it. I write down aaaall the tasks I have to do. It helps me unload my mind. It gives me a sense of order. But — brilliant mind, I know — I found a way to stress mysel...
