"**What would you do differently with your time, today, if you knew in your bones that salvation was never coming**—that your standards had been unreachable all along, and that you’ll therefore never manage to make time for all you hoped you might? "Perhaps you’re tempted to object that yours is a special case, that in your particular situation you do need to pull off the impossible, timewise, in order to avert catastrophe. For example, maybe you’re afraid you’ll be fired and lose your income if you don’t stay on top of your impossible workload. **But this is a misunderstanding. If the level of performance you’re demanding of yourself is genuinely impossible, then it’s impossible, even if catastrophe looms—and facing this reality can only help**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[momento-mori]], [[expectations]], [[ever-present-now]], [[priorities]], [[personal-values]] **Source** -- [[202410130434 - B - Four Thousand Weeks]]