The measure of a man’s life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

How long a life runs is largely outside anyone’s control, and what fills it is not. A short life spent with attention, affection and some useful work is not a lesser one than a long life spent waiting, though we do not usually count them that way. The measure is in the spending.

This is not a call to hurry. Look at where your hours actually went last week and ask whether that was a good use of them. Change one recurring block you would not defend if someone asked you about it.