Welcome to Overcommitment
Anonymous. We are men and women who have come together to share our strength and our pain in
overcoming overcommitment.
We have scheduled an extra hour a day for meetings to
accomplish this.
This is our
program:
We recognized that our schedule was completely out of
control, and that being in three different cities at two o'clock on Tuesday was probably
never going to be physically possible.
We came to believe that a Higher Power could help us
out of the chaos.
We made a decision to turn our lives over to our Higher
Power, who has more control over space-time than we do.
3a. We admitted that even a Higher Power
probably won't be able to help us be in three places at once.
3c. We admitted that this giving up
control thing was going to take awhile.
3d. We skipped 3b because we were busy
with another project just then.
We made a searching moral inventory of every time we
have scheduled 46 hours out of 24, promised to deliver a project the next morning that would
require a week of work, scheduled a two hour meeting at 9 AM and another one at 9:30 AM,
eaten lunch at our desk, slept on the office floor, slept on our keyboard, gone without
sleep, and generally overextended ourselves. Even when it was fun.
We shared this moral inventory with at least one
other person who would give us enough time to listen to the whole thing, which proved to be a
useful way to identify other candidates for Overcommitment Anonymous.
We became entirely ready to have our Higher Power
remove all these shortcomings and make us content with accomplishing what human strength can
do in 24 hours of normal spacetime.
We humbly asked our Higher Power to please do so
while we still have some human strength left. NOTE: Most of us are still coming up with qualifying clauses for Step Six. (aka Step
Sux)
We made a list of everyone who has ever been
adversely affected by waiting for us in Omaha Nebraska because we were sure we could get to
New Jersey and back in two hours, or any other overcommitment we ever made.
We committed ourselves to making amends to all of
these people.
We assured our Higher Power that yes, we will allow
longer than 24 hours to do it all and will not try to make all amends at the same
time.
We sought through prayer, meditation and daily Net
searches to find calendar software that will slap our hands whenever we overbook our
bods.
Having had an Awakening of some sort or another as
the result of these Steps, we try daily to carry the message to other sufferers
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