1– There comes a time when you can’t afford to waste what you have—your resources, your energy, your time, your mind, your emotions, your relationships.

Now, the same statement, with one word added and underlined:

2– There comes a time when you can’t afford to waste what you have left—your resources, your energy, your time, your mind, your emotions, your relationships.

As we get older, we start facing that second statement, with the word, left, because we must accept less in many areas.
The key is dealing with it without adding more stress.

– – –

For anyone out there who feels you’re losing it, a little or a lot,
we need the
Department
Of
Mental
Efficiency

Find waste, fraud, theft, inefficiency, in the use of mental energy, especially as the available supply becomes a premium.

We need D.O.M.E.
But who can we find to do what needs to be done—identify our unaffordable mental inefficiencies and give practical suggestions to address them.

I believe it must be done.
I feel it can be done.

(I’ll start writing notes when ideas come.)