Is a publishing professional with more than twenty years of

You Know You’re Running Your Rally When . . .
•  You charge from meeting to meeting, appointment to appoint-
ment, with no time to gather your thoughts;
•  You’ve  taken  lunch  at  your  desk  so  often,  your  keyboard’s 
clogged with crumbs;
•  The ringing phone makes you jump;
•  You feel one bad surprise away from throwing up your hands 
and screaming;
•  A longtime friend calls to tell you she’s coming to town and 
would love to see you, but you make excuses because there’s 
just no way you can spare the time;
•  You aren’t getting any exercise, but you feel exhausted;
•  You crawl into bed at last—and can’t fall asleep.
We all go through days, even weeks like that. For short spells, 
it  can  even  be  exhilarating—as  long  as  we  can  keep  one  jump 
ahead of disaster. But the longer you sustain this killer pace, the 

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more  you  suffer  and  the  less  efficient  you  become—not  just  in 
your work but in every aspect of life.