If you took on a responsibility that you cannot meet, the only thing you can do is 'fess up as soon as you realize it, and ask for help, or for someone else to step up and take it over. It may take two or three somebodies, if you are as overmatched as you think you are. If it takes three people to replace the failing efforts of one person... that's a good sign that you really COULDN'T do it, just the same as if you'd been hit by a bus.
Perhaps that's it ... perhaps you ask yourself, If I walked out the door five minutes from now and was hit by a meteorite, what would happen to this task? Because if it is really vital, the answer is that someone, or someoneS, would step up and deal. The reason you don't see those people now is because they are behind you.
Or the answer is nobody would do it, in which case maybe it isn't as vital as it seems. Would people die, if this did not happen? Would babies go hungry in the street? Or would it just be a huge inconvenience for people who would have to make a different plan to meet this need in the future? Few things are really vital, and even fewer are as vital as we Responsible Types think.
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If you took on a responsibility that you cannot meet, the only thing you can do is 'fess up as soon as you realize it, and ask for help, or for someone else to step up and take it over. It may take two or three somebodies, if you are as overmatched as you think you are. If it takes three people to replace the failing efforts of one person... that's a good sign that you really COULDN'T do it, just the same as if you'd been hit by a bus.
Perhaps that's it ... perhaps you ask yourself, If I walked out the door five minutes from now and was hit by a meteorite, what would happen to this task? Because if it is really vital, the answer is that someone, or someoneS, would step up and deal. The reason you don't see those people now is because they are behind you.
Or the answer is nobody would do it, in which case maybe it isn't as vital as it seems. Would people die, if this did not happen? Would babies go hungry in the street? Or would it just be a huge inconvenience for people who would have to make a different plan to meet this need in the future? Few things are really vital, and even fewer are as vital as we Responsible Types think.