20191108 - Thoughts: Your Life in Weeks & The Tail End By Tim Urban

Your Life in Weeks
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html

The Tail End
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html

These two articles try to observe our life from higher level, some level we normally won't touch until the end of our lives.

To me, that means "priority" and "quality" are critical.

"It makes me want to skip the New Year’s Resolutions—they never work anyway—and focus on making New Week’s Resolutions every Sunday night. Each blank box is an opportunity to crush the week—a good thing to remember."

A good reminder to the importance of our next week. What we can do in the rest of our life depends on it.


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