Taking the Time to Prepare

I start back at work tomorrow and have too many things to do and not enough time. I could feel my stress levels rising and it forced me out of bed a couple of hours earlier than I had hoped. This was enough to make me bad tempered but the feeling that there was a mountain of work to do was worse. 

As I was drinking my coffee I knew that this was not the way I wanted the year to start. The stress was because I was trying to take responsibility for everything rather than paying attention to what I was accountable for and what was important. I made a list, a short one, of what I have to do by the end of the week and felt immediately better.