The Balance of Busy

So lately it feels like we've escalated to a new plateau of "busy" in life. It seems to hold true that to do life well you've got to do fewer and fewer things. To live in "right relationship" with the people in the world around you, but also live in the kind of world our culture places us in... often feels impossible. You'll always be late for something, or miss it all together...Perhaps letting this person down while helping that person get on his feet. How many people are we really meant to be able to "connect" with? The thing is though you want to connect with everyone (for the most part ;) ) but that can't happen. We easily find ourselves passing out at the end of every single day because of work, relationships, dishes, and ofcourse the continually baby preparation.
I do think more and more i'm learning how to let go of other people's expectations for my life. We all grow up in the sphere of the expectations of those around us... whether it be teachers or parents or friends or bosses or whoever... Now i'm not saying "I don't care what anyone thinks..." ... like those who wear their gym shorts everywhere... :) Thats just lazy. But I think that all too often we live our every waking moments out of some sort of "fear" of failing... of others expectations over us... instead of living the life God is calling us to right now, today.
Perhaps its one of the Devil's sneakiest tricks to always try and get us to measure ourselves up to the expectations or "virtues" of those around us. When all the while God doesn't want us doing this, always looking toward others for some sort of salvation, He wants us looking at Him. He is Salvation. 

Don't let the expectations of who others think you ought to be, ruin who God wants you to be, today.