Title impose roles is a term we coined years ago to help explain the problem of overloaded lives faced by most of us. We live in a title-based world. In personal or work life we are given titles. Embedded in these titles are many roles based on the biases, assumptions and expectations of others. Meeting all these expectations is a formula for overloaded lives that is sure to have negative consequences on your health and well-being.

Once you have narrowed down the list of roles that form your focus you need to define them in the form of short-term projects. Why short-term projects? Because the world and our lives are changing at an ever-increasing pace. With short-term projects, we can establish reasonable expectations.