Maybe you had last Monday off work, coming home from retreat. And then maybe Tuesday hits with a vengeance. You can't take two days off work without paying for it. Maybe there was interoffice fighting, right in front of you. Maybe it was the week before a big tradeshow. Maybe your job is more than one person can handle. So you work like a fiend all week. Trying to keep things going, moving on track, details, details, details. Maybe you're supposed to go to this meeting at the tradeshow Friday for everyone to touch base and make sure it's all set, and then you're going to go work from home for the rest of the afternoon to do prep for a big issue / meeting on Monday afternoon. Instead stuff at the show isn't set, isn't ready, and instead you spend the whole afternoon there, working, doing what needs to be done now.
Then you work the show most of the day on Saturday (longer than you should have, in fact). Exhausting but good. You finally leave, you've got one hour before dinner plans. So rather than attacking the large and time consuming project you were going to do Friday afternoon... and then Saturday afternoon... you clean the leaves out of the flower bed in front and prune the rosebush. It only seems right. You then take the evening off.
Sunday hits with a vengeance. The weekend is nearly over and it hasn't really begun. Work work work. You wake up dreaming about it. You go to Mass, relax for a few minutes (by which I mean enter "the zone" where you morph into some altered state of being totally devoid of thought, purpose, or ability to move). And then you have to run out for an afternoon meeting for this ordination celebration stuff... the stuff you absolutely want to get behind and support, but you are simply too tired, too busy, too overworked. You should have said no to begin with. Why on earth are you going to this meeting???
NO11 Fail. Learn to say NO already.
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