little_tippler

Like I have said, the problem isn't saying no, it's that I don't actually want to say no. I will say no when I'm not interested. But if time is the only obstacle, I will probably say yes. Which is silly because then I'm swamped.

For me it's not a question of running away from anything. I am an only child and an introvert, I need quiet time. I like my own company, and occasional solitude. Sometimes I want the whole world to go away so I can just fiddle with my thoughts.

I think I will take some of your advice and practice saying no. Maybe reading that book will help me too Cyn. I'll have to see. For now, I'm just trying to take each thing one step at a time.

I have a list on my PC of all the things I have yet to do and the deadlines I have set. Every day I cross a few things off. Slowly they get done. The problem is I keep adding to it every day too. I am incorrigible...

Thanks for your tips. At the end of the day, I love doing a lot of different things, and I love helping others and being creative. All I need now is more hours in each day and I'm good

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918