"**The day will never arrive when you finally have everything under control**—when the flood of emails has been contained; when your to-do lists have stopped getting longer; when you’re meeting all your obligations at work and in your home life; when nobody’s angry with you for missing a deadline or dropping the ball; and when the fully optimized person you’ve become can turn, at long last, to the things life is really supposed to be about. **Let’s start by admitting defeat: none of this is ever going to happen**. "But you know what? That’s excellent news." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[infinite-scroll]], [[work-life-balance]], [[satisficing]], [[character]], [[personal-values]], [[ever-present-now]] **Source** -- [[202410130434 - B - Four Thousand Weeks]]