There are always so many things to do and so little time in which to do them. When the time I have available is significantly less than the time it will realistically take me to complete all of my tasks, I start to feel stress.
Stress arises both as a kind of worry and as a kind of tension. The worry is that I won't be able to do everything I need to do and there will be some unwanted consequence, while the tension follows from the judgment that I can only get everything done through strict and unrelenting discipline.
These feelings are forms of suffering that I'm experiencing. Like all suffering, they actively undermine my ability to do what I must. Instead of focusing on the tasks I need to complete, I'll be distracted by the worry and limited in the range of my actions by the tension.
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