OK. I give up. This month has wiped me right out. It’s been an outrageously busy month; with my daughter turning 10 a few days after the new year began, work stuff, volunteer duties and “the usual” that comes with raising three kids and two dogs. There are days when it seems like I can't get it all done or that I'm not excelling at any one particular thing.

Classic overachiever? Maybe. Normal? Absolutely.

Don't you feel like BOTH some days? (Me with my cool business partner.)

In my spare time recently, thanks to a colleague who sent it to me, I read this fabulous article and couldn’t resist passing it on. I couldn’t say it better myself—we all do TOO MUCH — and this is even backed up with data. Yes, proof.

One of these guys says we have more leisure time now, in the ‘10s, than we did back in the ‘60s. Who, me--30 hours of leisure per week?

It’s long. But make some time to read it—it might just help you to think about how you spend your time.

Sarah Nicoli is founder and owner of dotmine dayplanners, the fashion meets function dayplannersâ„¢, based in Ann Arbor. If she had done as Walt Whitman suggested and “Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten….”, you wouldn’t be reading this right now. She can be reached at snicoli@timemine.com.