busy baby

Baby steps. That's what I do when I feel overwhelmed by the enormity of a certain task or a situation I find myself in. I try to take baby steps. Slowly, a bit wobbly, but surely taking the direction where I needed to be. It does not matter how slow or how many steps I had to make. It does not matter if I do not reach my destination today, or maybe not tomorrow. What matters is I am taking small steps to the right direction.

So today, in the middle of one of the many wonderful weekends I am blessed with so far, I take baby steps to tackle the overwhelming backlog of work created by recent downtimes and network issues. Totally not my fault, just one of those things that happen because there's a problem somewhere in some hemisphere. The world has become so interconnected it is impossible not to be affected by a butterfly flapping its wings in China and the hurricane that resulted from its ripples magnified across continents. That I am in one of the top offshoring destinations in the world only ensures that I get to be affected by one little hiccup made in Uncle Sam's land.

So I take one step at a time. One report at a time. One data at a time. I know it's going to take much longer to finish everything, and I do not and will not try to tackle all these at once. But I take one at a time. Maybe in a few days I'll have several small accomplishments that would count towards finishing the bigger task.

Ah it's all good, though. It's the little things that make my days even more wonderful, regardless of the difficulties of work and life in general. Thank goodness for life's little pleasures (like the best cupcakes in the world or the happy movie-musicals and online reservations), and thanks to the universe for allowing me to share these with someone very very special.