Many years ago while in the middle of a mid-life crisis (I had them often in my early twenties), I decided to make a list.   The List.  It was essentially a to-do list on steroids.  Nowadays they come with pictures and are called vision boards.  But back then, I didn’t quite have that terminology available to me, so it was just A To-Do List.
It did, however, have an interesting characteristic.  It had something from all facets of my life.  “Get MBA” and “Write the great Somali novel” were listed right …

I’m a convert.  I went from a fun (read: wired)  night owl to a zen-like (read: boring) early bird.  I’m loving it.
Everyone has heard of Ben Franklin’s,  “Early to bed, early to rise, makes you wealthy, healthy and wise”.  I’m a true believer -  except for the wise bit – it’s going to take a bit more than going to bed early to develop extra wisdom.  Actually, I’m not so sure about the wealthy bit either, unless somebody would pay me to shut up and go to sleep. And I’m …