[whpalmer4]

If your list of tasks with start dates grows ever larger, you need to do something about it. Two good choices:

1) get more work done
2) get rid of some of the work

If you are working at capacity and can't keep up, it's time to renegotiate some of your commitments, as David Allen would say. Do a higher-level review and make sure that it makes sense to be spending time on everything that you are doing. Also have a look at those dusty, unstarted actions and make sure there isn't something else preventing you from working on them, like failure to break them down into appropriately sized and shaped chunks.