Avoiding overcommitment
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To avoid overcommitment, take control and make good choices about your schedule.
Matters to a Degree Comment: Does this scenario sound familiar? You've made a commitment to do something, with every intention to honor your promise. Then, the deadline draws near and you become anxious, stressed, overwhelmed and wonder how you're going to be able to find time to meet your obligation while attending to all of the others? So, you work until you're weary, you have a sudden and unrelenting "brain freeze," you fulfill your commitment but the quality of your work does not meet your (or others') expectations, or you simply withdraw and fail to honor your agreement, letting…
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