Erica – your advice and insight, as always, are amazing. And I’m really good about what you wrote, only trying to do so much every day-being realistic about goals. Man it’s just hard sometimes when everything can seem to bubble over and leave us at a loss for words. Thank you for reminding me to stick my head up and look around from time to time.

Laura – I leave for Kiva training on 5/17 – leave for the Philippines June 6th!

Good luck with both!

Unilove aka Lisa

Remember the Titanic? Well, when Mr. Andrews built it for the White Star Line it had something like 16 water-tight compartments, except they weren’t really water-tight. There was a couple feet of space at the top of each compartment and when the first one filled up – it spilled over into the second one and so forth and so on. The Titanic could have stayed a float with any of the first 4 compartments full, but with 5 full things got dicey.

Right now – you’ve set yourself up with Water-Tight Compartments – and what’s gonna happen is you won’t finish everything on your list, and then things will get added, and each day you’ll have to carry over so many to-do’s, until one day you’ll just sink under the weight of it all.

So I suggest Day-Tight Compartments instead. Day-Tight Compartments can be completely tight. With Day-Tight Compartments you live each day separate from the next. You don’t live in the past or in the future, you live in the present. You do as much as you can each day, and then you get up and you start new the next. No guilt, no worry, no anxieties. Don’t fret about the future, simply live each day until bed time. Doing the best you can with all of the enthusiasm you can muster.

Worry and Anxiety can be paralyzing.

(I’m paraphrasing Dale Carnegie here

good luck!