One Step at a Time!

I took myself to one side and had a serious talk about my life, and after much soul searching, I realised the current state of my head was caused by cramming too many things inside it, most of them completely unreasonable and beyond my control.
 It was time to take a long hard look at my workload and come to some sort of understanding. It was at this point that I remembered the serenity prayer . . .
“O Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.  The courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference…”
There are more verses to this prayer, written by Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) but the first verse should be indelibly written on the inside of my skull. I am usually the most patient person on the planet, but due to an unfortunate combination of circumstances, I must have decided to forget that detail.
After that miserable post, everyone has been so supportive, and all their messages were the same. I have to take a step back even for a day, in order to regroup and concentrate on the do-able, as opposed to the impossible.
Even though patience is my strong point, I know I have been slowly falling under the spell of doing far too much and expecting miracles. I always expect to stumble upon a magical doorway where everything miraculously works or happens yesterday, and when this fails to happen, I get depressed. Against my better judgement of course, but what can you do when you want need to succeed?
Therefore, I will stop shoving so many irons in the fire. Common-sense is telling me this is not the way to do anything.
I will concentrate on doing one thing at a time and see it through to the end, before moving on.
I will rearrange my schedule to include some ‘me’ time, for life is getting shorter by the minute, and as they say, we will always regret what we didn’t do . . .