A good reminder during the busiest times in your life: If you’ve gotten “behind” on some task or project, the worst thing you can do is try to “catch up” by dramatically increasing your output. You will fry yourself, and you won’t actually catch up at all. You’ll make more mistakes, you’ll get scattered.
The best thing to do is much harder to commit to. The best course of action is to reset. Imagine you’ve been trying to write a book. You committed to writing 500 words a day, and for a while you did it. Then you missed two days from writer’s block, so on the third day you say “Well, I’ll commit to 750 words per day until I’m back on target.” You know what happens? You get even more writer’s block! The best thing to do is just sit down and reset to 500 per day. In fact, it would be fine to ramp and reset – commit to only 100 today! After all, that’s still 100 more than the day before, and anything that isn’t zero is good.
You’ll be all caught up in no time.
The Opportunity Machine 