{"id":1638,"date":"2009-03-09T16:54:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T16:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2009\/03\/on-the-huffington-post-the-dis.html"},"modified":"2009-03-09T16:54:32","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T16:54:32","slug":"on-the-huffington-post-the-dis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2009\/03\/on-the-huffington-post-the-dis.html","title":{"rendered":"On the Huffington Post: The Disease of A-Thousand-Things-To-Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not that I’m following my own advice today, but the Huffington Post just published my post, “The Disease of A-Thousand-Things-To-Do,”<\/a> inspired by Abby Seixas’s book, “Finding the Deep River Within.” But I’m hoping if I continue to try everyday to simplify, one day I might get it right? Click here to read it on the Hufffington Post.<\/a> It begins: <\/p>\n

I have contracted an illness called “the disease of a-thousand-things-to-do.” That’s how author Abby Seixas describes it in her insightful book, “Finding the Deep River Within.” <\/a>It’s a modern condition whereby human beings are always rushing, trying desperately to cross off every task on their to-do lists, and are bombarded by interruptions and information overload.<\/p>\n

Does this sound famililar?<\/p>\n

Consider these observations she makes to claim her case of what has become a very unbalanced and frenetic culture:<\/p>\n