# Chapter 73

Do you wake up feeling like you are already behind? I did for many years, but not anymore. I do not live that way. But I am discovering on all my travels across America that most of the executives I am working with, are way overclocked. I mean like they are addicted to working and far too engaged in their roles at their jobs. They cannot stop and be still. They are afraid to stop and be quiet. Most disturbingly, I don’t think they want to.

As I sit across the table talking, eating or smoking a cigar with these men, it was fairly constant humble bragging about how busy, how many hours they worked, how big the pressures were, how complicated the challenges, how overwhelmed they are, how exhausted and overextended they are, how capable they are for managing so many overages, etc etc. I. Am. Not. Impressed. In fact, I am writing these matters down on this virtual paper as insurance that I remain inoculated and protected from ever again admiring anyone who chooses to live this way. To vaccinate myself from thinking for a single second that I want to live like that again. No thank you.

I want to wake up feeling like the possibilities are endless, like the day might bring something new and creative and exciting, that I am gonna learn something new today, that I will get to do some amazing things today. I want to wake up excited about the potentials and the promises of a new day. Waking feeling like I am already behind made me just want to pull the covers up over my head and never get out of bed. Waking up the David way is fun, energizing and interesting. I think I will stick with my current approach.