5 min read A little too much. About tasks, their overabundance, and how to make them end.

The New Year is coming up, and you've been plowing around like a bee all month, piling up tasks and probably thinking, “What a great job I am! I'm going to sit down and do all this mountain of work! Wow! And make some money for the holidays.” 

But that's not what's going to happen. You have a planning error. You took more than you could handle.

If that's the case, congratulations, you're not alone.
 

And so the whole mess rolls into the holidays. Naturally, you have read our article about burnout and do not want to work on Saturday/Sunday. And you're doing the right thing. People have a rest on weekends. No one will appreciate your self-sacrifice.
 

You need to gather all your willpower into a fist and calmly say: "I underestimated the timing, but here's a new plan. We can think about it together. Realistically, I will do it then and then. And that's how I'll do it even faster." 

You should come up with solutions, not suggest new problems. 

What are the possible options:
 

1. You are relieving yourself of some task. If necessary, you return the money. No one has died from this yet and the walls of the office have not collapsed. They'll just find another performer.
    
2. Some of the priority tasks can be postponed for later. If people don't need something right now, they'll wait a couple of weeks.
    
3. Simplify your work and reduce the depth of study. Since you've cornered yourself and you don't have any other options, it's not the time to play perfectionist. Or maybe the customer does not need such detail at all. Specify and agree.
    
4. Maybe something has changed since you took the task. Now we need a new one. Discuss it.
    
5. Divide the task into parts and give them to other people. Unnecessary parts can be discarded.
    

Moral: your mountain of cases can be disassembled into mounds. Stop doing that and start talking. It's harder than plowing. But this is the solution.
 

And have a good rest after the holidays, set new goals and strive for them smoothly. You will succeed!