Subscribe RSSIn the dead of night, when I lie awake thinking terrible thoughts, I think what a terrible thought "the dead of night" is. Who started calling it that?
This occurred to me at 3 Saturday night, when it really wasn’t Saturday or night anymore, but early Sunday morning. I wouldn’t dream of saying "in the dead of morning," and I couldn’t dream of anything anyway, because I couldn’t get to sleep. I couldn’t even daydream because it was the dead of night.
Then I started worrying about how much I had to do and how little of it I got done the previous day. It was at this moment that I had the thought that may change my life. I realized successful people are not any better than I am at doing things; they’re better at not doing things I waste time doing.
In the future, instead of making a TTDT (Things to Do Today) list, I’ll draw up a TNTDT (Things Not to Do Today) list. That’s where I’ve been going wrong: Doing things I shouldn’t have bothered doing.
