Having too big a bite to chew

by SANTOSH
(Mumbai, Maharashtra, India)

My sincere intention is to give over hundred percent performances each day. Often this results in setting targets too impractical to achieve over the following day, week or month. Why can’t I accept the limitation of my capacity?

More often than not, I end up being overly frustrated with my own self. This keeps building up only to make me more disillusioned as the carry over of jobs not done on a particular day keeps adding to extra pressure when combined with jobs already on the platter the next day.

In my cooler moments, I do realize the fact of my accomplishments but the tough task master that I have grown to be with myself, comes in the way irritating me constantly with all I have failed to accomplish. It’s a vicious circle leading to lack of enjoying even small joys of day to day life!

Time and again when I am in my element, I converse with my wife who I have found to play the best stress buster. I find her counsel mostly emphasizing on practical targets I should have set for myself in the first place.

Like last weekend when we sat sipping our favorite coffee at the regular joint, I narrated an entire list of some ten odd items that remained pending. She first told me that internet connection that was behaving so erratically had been fixed; our old TV set did receive a lease of its functional life with just a replacement of some components. Not to forget, she reminded, I finally selected a netbook that I had fancied for so long.

Old habits die hard. I don’t know when I will crush my tendency to ruminate over tasks I can’t complete knowing all too well that the very targets I set are difficult for anyone to achieve; more so in the backdrop of hurried pace of metro life.

All the same I am quite sure I will!