it hardly matters how committed you are to making the best use of your limited time if, day after day, your attention gets wrenched away by things on… - Oliver Burkeman

Rendering yourself more efficient — either by implementing various productivity techniques or by driving yourself harder — won't generally result in the feeling of having 'enough time,' because, all else being equal, the demands will increase to offset any benefits. Far from getting things done, you'll be creating new things to do.

if you plan to spend some of your four thousand weeks doing what matters most to you, then at some point you're just going to have to start doing it.

I was peeling a red apple from the garden when I suddenly understood that life would only ever give me a series of wonderfully insoluble problems.4 With that thought an ocean of profound peace entered my heart.