Balance: The Unattainable Goal?

I have kind of a one track mind. I find it difficult to focus on more than one project at a time.  I can do more than one task at a time, like talk on the phone, put away groceries and start dinner. I am a mom so that kind of comes with the job but as far as projects go I get going on something and I don’t want to stop.  This is why I don’t do what organizational experts  recommend and declutter for fifteen minutes a day. Once I start I don’t stop. I don’t care about the stupid timer I will slap that sucker off and keep going. I will be up all night organizing my closet.  I had better have time to get it done or I am better off not starting.  I am a little obsessive once I start something. I can’t think about anything else.

I am at an interesting point in my writing career.  I have finished the first book and am doing the last rewrites.  I am also about halfway through book two and the characters are getting really loud because I have gone back to book one for a short bit.  Apparently all these characters have an idea about who should go first and who has priority that has nothing to do with the deadlines I have set for myself.  I also have a husband, two kids, a spoiled dog and a pile of laundry that I am pretty sure is reproducing in my laundry room.

Balance has always been an issue in my life.    I never seem to quite manage it.  Is it even attainable?  I think I have it and then everything seems to topple over and I am left having to start all over. It seems to me other people do a better job of it than I do. I am not sure how they accomplish it. I love what I do but I do wish we had house elves. I would totally give them clothes.

Got any balance suggestions feel free to comment below.