{"id":121,"date":"2008-11-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2008-11-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T00:00:00","slug":"overcommitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/2008\/11\/overcommitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcommitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting quote that I found on one of the GTD blogs (<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.davidco.com\/blogs\/kelly\/\">http:\/\/www.davidco.com\/blogs\/kelly\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&quot;&quot;&quot;A foolproof way to create resistance to stretching into new and wonderful places for you is to maintain a sense of over commitment. And one of the surest ways to allow that feeling is to lose track of what your commitments are. The Weekly Review &#8212; done regularly over time &#8212; awakens your self-regulating mechanism. Knowing how overcommitted you are &#8212; really &#8212; is very different than being afraid of how overcommitted you are! -David Allen &quot;&quot;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m definately feeling this right now. I don&#8217;t feel like I can stretch out and try new things because I&#8217;m too behind on execution of things that need to &quot;get done&quot;. And having a todo list with 60+ items just in the &quot;Work&quot; category contributes to a sense of being so far behind that I&#8217;m not even sure how far behind I really am.<\/p>\n<p>Seems like I need to do some clearing of the brush and cut away a bunch of stuff either by carving out execution time or decommiting from tasks to get some space clear. This is also true because I&#8217;m having trouble getting focused and started executing on &quot;big scary tasks&quot; that need to get done.<\/p>\n<p>All these things seem like they are adding resistance to doing things to becoming exceptional and taking my professional and personal life to that next level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    <![CDATA[]]><br \/>\n     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/2008\/11\/overcommitment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3cats.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}