![]() ![]() on a Tuesday and I am racing down Route 1 in College Park, Maryland. What it is like to live inside this fractured “time confetti” is captured on Schulte’s opening page: “It is just after 10 a.m. It is the factor that turns our lives – and, disproportionately, working women’s lives – into what Schulte calls “crappy bits of time confetti”. It is the way that we feel the need to answer work emails while supervising our children, and then end up spending time at work making calls for their appointments at the dentist and paediatrician. ‘The overwhelm’ is what Schulte calls the endless, crushing sensation that we will never be able to fulfil all our obligations at work and at home satisfactorily. Schulte’s work confirmed for me that it is just such ‘clearings’ in our daily round that is one of the keys to tackling what she calls ‘the overwhelm.’ ![]() Reading in the hour before bed is my daily, sanity-saving luxury. Something stuck, though, from that little mention I downloaded the book to my Kindle that night. I did not take a moment to note it, save it, even clip it, but went right on to the next thing. I wish I knew what that article was now, but of course, at the time, I was merely skimming it, while fielding incoming emails, and chomping down on instant couscous and tuna in the little window of ten minutes’ quiet I allowed myself before flinging myself at the next task on the enormous and endless pile. ![]() I saw mention of Shulte’s new book in an article about the plague of over-busyness that has taken over our lives. ![]()
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