>> One simply does what one can. Exactly. Long ago, I built a task management app for myself and my company. After using it for a while, I looked at the over

>> One simply does what one can. Exactly. Long ago, I built a task management app for myself and my company. After using it for a while, I looked at the overview and found that I had something like 768 hours of Urgent and High priority tasks due in the next two weeks. There are only 336 hours total in two weeks (nevermind sleeping, eating, traveling, etc...). Moreover, this was not atypical of the list of things on my plate, it was just that now it had been collected as actual data. No amount of working faster, trimming, delegating, etc. was going to get this done. The realization is that things WILL slip, even so much that some never get done. The goal is just to keep the critical things from slipping so much that you are taken out of the game. Also recognize that this is OK, and don't beatup myself or others about it (and that beating on myself or others only distracts and prevents the tasks from getting done). Just get on with what you can get on with.