Oliver Burkeman's Last Column: The Eight Secrets to a (Fairly) Fulfilled Life
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Oliver Burkeman's Last Column: The Eight Secrets to a (Fairly) Fulfilled Life
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It can’t be the case that you must do more than you can do. That notion doesn’t make any sense: if you truly don’t have time for everything you want to do, or feel you ought to do, or that others are badgering you to do, then, well, you don’t have time—no matter how grave the consequences of failing to do it all might prove to be. So, technically,
... See moreBut if you do with conviction the next and most necessary thing, you are always doing something meaningful and intended by fate.” A modified version of this insight, “Do the next right thing,” has since become a slogan favored among members of Alcoholics Anonymous, as a way to proceed sanely through moments of acute crisis. But really, the “next an
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