Feeling overwhelmed--time to take a breathe and plan

I haven't posted to my blog in a while. I know that students feel really overwhelmed at mid-term. So do professors and staffers. There's so much to be done before the semester ends: so many papers to grade, classes to prepare, events to run. How will we ever get things done? And this year, I got a cold four weeks into the semester; that threw me even further behind. So every semester, I have to remind myself to slow down and take things one task at a time. I really have to use my to-do list to keep me on track. I hope you're finding strategies that help keep you on track, too.