I find that in the midst of all the trees that I sometimes forget that I'm in a forest. What do I mean by this? I get so busy doing stuff that I forget why I'm doing it. Do you ever get this problem or is it just me?

My wife Roselyn normally notices that I've managed to get myself into this situation before I do. I end up being grumpy and generally not very nice to live with as I slog away at my forever growing "things to do" list.

What is it about "things to do" lists anyway? I feel more often than not that they are the stick that keeps on whacking the donkey (ie. me) in the backside. No matter how much gets done there just seems to be more things that pile onto them.

It's at this time that I go and have a chat to the referee and call "time out". I did this yesterday and headed off down to the beach to take some time to get my thinking sorted out and the priority of things to do under control.

After going on a great walk up and down a glorious beach, sitting staring at the ocean for a few hours and filling over ten pages of notes that covered some of my "to do" items I felt a heck of a lot better. Rather than all of the things to do flying through my brain in some chaotice fire-fight the little time out seemed to organise them so that at least they were now flying in formation.

I came back home and sat down with Roselyn over a cup of coffee and feeling a lot better about life. The first thing I had to do was apologise for being almost unbearable and the second thing was do the same to the kids.....a little humble pie is often a good thing to eat.

The time I took out to survey the forest did wonders for my perspective on why I was doing what I was doing and the short breather made sure that I was feeling a lot fresher before going back into the fray.

My advice to anyone that is feeling stressed. Take some time off and get your head in a right place. I can almost guarantee you'll feel a lot better and make much better decisions. The world of the Internet moves incredibly quickly but it doesn't mean that we have to forget to take a refresher every now and then.

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