Learning to balance

The past few weeks have been really chaotic, work-wise.  I actually haven't had that much work (I'm mostly finishing up old stuff), and so I'm scrambling to get stories placed so I can hopefully pay the bills.  Tonight, I got slammed both with a need to send out new ideas and finishing up a story from before.  When I figured out what my workload was going to be, I pretty much panicked.

How was I going to get all of this done?

I realized I was going to have to move some of my trawling for story ideas to tomorrow--deadlines always win out over no deadlines.  But I was behind anyway and frustrated, and then I had to contend with trying to schedule and then transcribe several last-minute interviews.  I was simply overwhelmed.

Photo by SummationsOnce I got my interviews actually scheduled, I calmed down a bit and started talking to myself calmly and slowly--kind of like you would do to an angry dog. A slobbering, growling, barking, extremely angry dog.  I know how to do this. It will take some time, but I can get it done. Relax and breathe. Breathe again.