Competing Priorities

Valuing multiple priorities while trying to focus on a particular course of action can be crazy-making. No matter how resolutely my eyes fix their gaze on a chosen course of action, my ears hear nothing but the shouts of the outranked priorities. I am continually justifying to myself the merits of my most recent use-of-time decision. Such constant mental gymnastics is exhausting, not to mention distracting and time consuming. What to do with the voices, though? That's the problem. They are persuasive and relentless.