There is a very down-to-earth kind of liberation in grasping that there are certain truths about being a limited human from which you'll never be lib… - Oliver Burkeman

Being alive is just happenstance, and not one more day of it is guaranteed.

What is anxiety? It is the next day. With whom, then, does the pagan contend in anxiety? With himself, with a delusion, because the next day is a powerless nothing if you yourself do not give it your strength.' – SØREN KIERKEGAARD

The problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important — or just for enough of what feels important — is that you definitely never will. The reason isn't that you haven't yet discovered the right time management tricks or supplied sufficient effort, or that you need to start getting up earlier, or that you're generally useless. It's that the underlying assumption is unwarranted: there's no reason to believe you'll ever feel 'on top of things,' or make time for everything that matters, simply by getting more done.