Categorizing my life

Hi, my name is Daniel and I'm a workaholic. Yep, I hate missing work. The few times that I do call in sick is actually to do some sort of side job. I usually never take a day off just to relax.

I have been sick the past couple of days, yet I tried to go into the office yesterday. BIG, BIG mistake. I ended up going in around 9:30 and leaving by noon. I was feeling like complete crap. So I ended up forcing myself to call in sick today.

But you know what. I'm still working (Just from home). There is something mentally wrong with me. Well, besides all the other crazy mental crap that is part of my life. I have this sick feeling that if I'm not doing something, then I feel like I'm wasting so much time. I really need to stop and sit in complete silence some times. I need to unwind my brain. I end up so wrapped up in day to day things, that I can't sleep. Then I'm up late and do not want to wake up in the morning.

I have so much I want to accomplish, but the procrastinator in me just wont let that happen. Then I feel overwhelmed because there is so much left to do. Pretty sick, isn't it?

I read this site the other day that give a pretty good tip for people like me. It said that I need to start labeling things into different categories. Right now, everything is in the "have to do" category. But that is not really true. Most of the stuff in that category are really "want to do" items. So I need to separate my life into subcategories. "Have to do", "Want to do", "Would be nice to do", and so on. Then I just need to make sure all of the have to do items are completed and can move on to the other categories. I think this is a pretty good system. Of course, the real test is will I use this system. It's one thing to like something, but it's a totally different thing to actually implement something.

I knew something that once said, "Life is not about words, but actions."

I think I'll have to follow that philosophy and do something about this insanity in my life.