My senior year of college, I had a lot of things going on. I was an Resident Assistant, taking a full load of education and theater classes, leading a bible study, and was highly involved in a campus ministry, on top of that was dealing with slight depression. (Okay, now that I type it out, it doesn’t seem like that much compared to now, but at the time it was a lot.)
I have this distinct memory of driving back from a leadership meeting with one of my best friends and now roommate. We were both overwhelmed with life and still unsure of what our futures held. We had senioritis but were no where near close to then end college. We had to make decisions regarding the next year, but didn’t know what to do first.
Then this song came on and it became our anthem for the year.
You wanna show the world but no one knows your name yet
Wonder when and where and how you’re gonna make it
You know you can if you get the chance
In your face and the door keeps slamming
Now you’re feeling more and more frustrated
And you’re getting all kind of impatient, waiting
We live and we learn to take
One step at a time there’s no need to rush
It’s like learning to fly or falling in love
It’s gonna happen and it’s supposed to happen
That we find the reasons why, one step at a time
This song echos something that my mother (oh, she is a wise one!) says to me often! It doesn’t always translate directly with a large to do list, but I think it is important to live the life you have now and not get to far ahead of yourself.
One thing at a time!
As I begin my 4th year of teaching, I am overwhelmed at all the things that I have going on in my life, whether it be the commitments at school, or grad school, or at church, or just maintaining my relationships with my friends. I have to remember to take one thing at a time. Then the future, my to do list, don’t seem so daunting, overwhelming or frustrating.
Most of these things are good and I want to do them, and perhaps I over commit to things, but still the only way to get through is take on one thing a time.
Yes, I have a lot of things on my plate right now, but the best thing that I can do is take one thing at a time, start somewhere or I will never get anywhere.
Anyone else like me and get overwhelmed with life? What other things do you tell yourself when things get to be too much? Do you have an anthem that you sing when you are stressed out?
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Anchor of my Soul 
Prov 31:27 She looks well to the ways of her household
and does not eat the bread of idleness
This verse really motivates me. I don't want to be found being idle. I may not get to everything on my list, but I try to just pick something and do it.
An object in motion tends to stay in motion (thank you, Isaac Newton) so I just try to get moving and things start to get done. =)
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