Agreed

This is exactly what I'm trying to focus on this year.  No less than the Wall Street Journal agrees that it's time to slow ourselves down a bit.

Given that our days are limited, our hours precious, we have to decide what we want to do, what we want to say, what and who we care about, and how we want to allocate our time to these things within the limits that do not and cannot change. In short, we need to slow down.

- John Freeman from his book "The Tyranny of E-Mail"

Hat tip to the About.com Contemporary Literature RSS feed for the link.

Best Parenthetical Comment Ever

(dietitians have now proven, in laboratory experiments, that high-fructose corn syrup is the the sweat of Satan).

Martha Beck, PhD

Michael Phelps and I - Twins?

Michael Phelps was interviewed on the sideline of today's Michigan game and I promise you he said this when listing his goals.

"Get back in shape"

Forty days after capturing his 8th gold medal in Beijing, Michael worried about his fitness level and needs to "get back in shape".

Clearly "Get back in shape" means something different to Michael than it does to me. Because getting back into shape is one of my goals too.

QOTD

The only real limitation you ever had was your inability to see what you were actually capable of all along.

-Dawn Dais
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