Aristotle walks up to Plato and says, “Teach me the law”.  
Plato says “1 million drachmas”.
Aristotle replies “I haven’t got any money”
Plato says “Okay, I’ll teach you the law and if you lose your first case, you won’t have to pay me” .
Aristotle agrees but after a year he becomes bored and says he’ll never practice law.
Plato says “Okay, just pay me a half million drachmas for my time”
Aristotle refuses so Plato sues him. 
The judge rules in favor of Plato and orders Aristotle to pay.
Aristotle says, “I don’t have to.  I just lost my first case”.

This is referred to as a philosophical “dilemma”,  two arguments, both are right and both are wrong depending on your Philosophy.

At least once or twice a month, I become overwhelmed by all the things I have to do just to maintain my life. I begin to believe I can’t keep up.  The thought of adding my “stretch goals” to this malaise is, well, unthinkable.  I call this my multi-lemma.  Many goals and tasks arguing for my time and resources, with no clear winner because a compelling case can be made for each end result.

A few years back I would just shut down, completely paraylized by the myriad of choices.  Then I tried something different, as you all know I am wont to do.  Instead of looking at the massive mountain of possible end results that lay before me, I looked at the various NEXT steps that needed to be taken for each one of them.  Something completely unexpected came from this,  I relaxed and was immediately able to prioritize.  Some next moves were so incredibly simple, I found myself taking those steps before I could talk myself out them.  And when I looked back, I was much further along than I ever “thought” possible.

This divide and conquer philosophy allows me to make very small incremental improvements which tend to not only raise me up when I am bogged down, but to achieve the ends which my fearful doubting mind would have argued(forever) I didn’t have the means to accomplish.