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[quote=Anonymous]I have come to believe that I have extraordinary time management skills. It's the only explanation for why I get everything done, and am usually pretty chill and relaxed, while others around me stress and race and "don't have time" for leisure or fun. This is true in my professional sphere, at home, and with regard to my kids.

I get very, very annoyed with the "crazy busy" people. Don't they ever look up and realize, life doesn't have to be "crazy busy"? Why do they assume I'm the one doing something wrong? I know that each and every time I post here about how I do not feel the stress, someone comes on and says condescendingly "You must only have one child", or "how much help can you afford to hire"?

Each time I see one of these "how do you get it all done???" posts, I'm tempted to inform the poster that somewhere, somehow, she is spinning her wheels and not making the most of her time. But I don't. Because I'm in such a small minority that all the rest of the "crazy busy" people would jump on me and reinforce this notion that there aren't enough hours in the day. People don't seem to want to hear that there are ways around their stress. They just want to be reassured that yes indeed, they are heroes for shouldering such a load, it IS very difficult, they MUST be very important to be so busy, blah blah. I don't have much patience with it all. [/quote]

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