![]() ![]() Most of the time, expectations come from within, not a boss or spouse. Consider what’s a priority and what isn’t. This might mean some emails don’t get returned late at night, which is probably OK. ![]() ![]() ![]() If it’s not a situation where the culture can readily change, to consider changing oneself. What about life in Washington, D.C., where what she dubs the cycle of responsiveness is particularly acute? She encourages people to do their best to change the culture of where they work and how they live. She says the biggest change between the time she began the book and when she finished were her own expectations about what she could accomplish, what she could blow off and what she could share. One major cause of feeling constantly rushed in our lives, according to Brigid Schulte, author of the recent book Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has The Time (Bloomsbury, £12.99), isn’t having too much to do it’s having too many different kinds of things to do, and doing them all jumbled up, with no sense of focus or completion. She details bright spots both domestic and foreign, whether it’s flex-time at the Pentagon or a cultural watershed in Denmark. Schulte is quick to point out her book is not all doom and gloom, with busy people all ending up with smaller brains because they’re stressing themselves to death. But the big things, everyone wants to talk about,” she says, singling out that “busyness is a huge thing people want to talk about.” “Different groups want to talk about different things. “I’m a work in progress myself,” Bridgid Schulte, the author of “Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has The Time,” says. The Washington Post scribe is well aware of the pressure people are under, because she lives the same D.C. ![]()
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