Up at 5:30 am. Meditate. Kale frittata. Shave. Gym. Shower. Desk. Coffee. List. Check, check, check. Tick, tack, toe. Keep motivated. Moving forward by creating the illusion that this is a fun game. No need to get overly excited about the outcome. Even keel. Level headed. Just business. But so tedious sometimes! …Just a quick look at ESPN.com to pass the time… Curbed LA, WSJ, Facebook, Eater, Saveur, REI… No! Back to work. Focus on checking things off the list! One foot in front of the other.

Stop.

Be grateful for what you have. You are so unbelievably fortunate. You are in the 99.99th percentile on the George Clooney Scale (in which the entire human population is ranked, from a blind, limbless beggar in the streets of Calcutta to George Clooney). So stop whining about having to motivate yourself to do the work for which they pay you handsomely. Better a few trivial items to tick off on a 3 by 5 card than a shovel and a ditch to dig.

On the other hand, if all of the other lucky fucks were just grateful – if they didn’t have that feeling that  things could be even better – then we probably would still be living in caves.

I honestly do not know whether that would be better than our (i.e., humanity’s) current situation.