As the wise and charismatic Ron Swanson once stated (and please excuse my language), "Don't half-ass two things. Whole ass one thing."

For me, it's more like trying to get 12 things done at once instead of just two. Who said guys cannot multitask again?

But this is what I'm rapidly and painfully learning is my weakness, my Achilles's heel, my short-coming. I try to do too much without focusing on what is really important. It seems to be a constant theme throughout my life that I just cannot (or will not) learn. All I see is a To-Do List when my actual things to accomplish should only be a couple.

And I've experienced the consequences of trying to take on too many things over and over again. Painful, frustrating, and emotional consequences. It's like God has been screaming at me to really just focus all my attention on a couple stones instead of trying to spread out my arms and hold the whole ceiling up.

For the past month, my wife truly has been a help-mate for me and I mean that in all seriousness and cheesiness that it entails. She's always been one to give me her opinion and advice (especially when I didn't want to hear it), but recently I've actually took what she has said and tried to apply it to my life. So not only has God been telling me this, but so has my best friend. That's a message that I can't ignore.

Maybe life isn't as complicated as we make it out to be? Sure, absolutely it can be stressful and some days are harder than others. I'm not trying to suggest that life isn't hard. But I believe there is a difference between hard and complicated. Maybe instead of focusing on too many things at once, and if we pulled back and focused on what really matters, then maybe we wouldn't have as much anxiety and stress. Maybe suicides would go down? Maybe people would work together and compromise more? And maybe I'm an unrealistic sap.

I don't know. But I do know that I'm done trying to multi-task. I want to focus on what really matters. And I feel a peace with that. I would do anything for that peace.