Musings: Omigosh it's the secret of life...!

Somewhere in the wee hours, working the night through (as is my wont), it came to me:

The secret of life is not trying to pack as much accomplishment as possible into a finite amount of time.

No, the secret of life is to recognize that a finite amount of time can only be filled by a finite number of accomplishments and priorities -- so choose the most important ones and deep-six the remaining 60-80 percent of your plans as untenable. Just never gonna get 'em done.

Funny how these epiphanies only come to us in the second half of our lives, after the boundless energy begins to ebb and we realize it's impossible to be superhuman and human at the same time.