To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.
– Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer, and pianist
The other day I was reading an online article on the financial planning site LearnVest. I stopped dead in my tracks upon reaching this quote: "I kept waking up in a panic at 4 A.M. worrying – not only about all of the stuff on my to-do list that I hadn't done that day and how much more there was to do, but also whether I was missing my life even as I was living it." Wait! Did LearnVest interview me? That was me to a T, I told myself. Maybe I wasn't waking up in a panic, but for the past month, as I have attempted to go to bed earlier in the evening, I have been waking up earlier. It's as if my internal clock cannot program more than six hours of sleep. I open my eyes and am wide awake anywhere between 4 and 5 in the morning. And I'm conscious of what I need to do, what deadline is before me that day. Some mornings I wake up with a mental check list of what is going to happen that day; other mornings, I am filled with panic about a deadline.
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