It's an excellent point to have a lens through which you pick the most important tasks! Thanks for sharing!

Not that my "process" would work for everyone, but I find that if I consider what exactly I want to accomplish in my remaining years -- things that are important enough to work for -- a whole bunch of items fall off the list. If it's not fun or if it doesn't make me happy, it's not worth the effort.

Thanks for the good information!

Yes! Please, give yourself permission to go at the pace that you can sustain. I'm proud of you for seeing and now sticking up for your needs!

It really is an awesome quote by Dale!

Lisa, I am thrilled for your 'slow down'.

Great post and great comments. I am definitely a FOMO 'poster girl' - and the scary thing is I have been doing this fiction writer thing for barely a year. 'Bogle' - not 'Burnout'- is my nemesis. I realize I have been trying to keep up with the push of a writer friend, who sadly I guessed from the get-go, is toxic to my personal modus operandi. I think your words here have given me permission to cleanse myself from the unintended toxicity of this writer friend. I am in for the long hall, and I deserve to proceed in peace and at a pace that suits my desire to write to begin with. Thank you ... and now I just need to define for myself what success looks like. That little tidbit of wondrous advice is fabulous!! Thank you again.

I am equally absorbed by my day job, and that also keeps my FOMO from getting out of control (most of the time).

I am so happy you took that time off!