there are limits to what can be done in a day. When we greet each day, we are greeting its limitation—the limited hours in a working day, our limited free time, our limited energy and resources. Yet we can often place expectations on ourselves and our days as if these limitations don’t exist—we can set sky-high ambitions, take on countless responsibilities, and make plans upon plans. When the things we need or ought to do keep spilling over into tomorrow, we may turn to optimizing our days—if we adopt a new time-management technique, we think, we’ll finally get on top of things. But the
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