"Every passing moment is a chance to turn it all around."

Penelope Cruz says that in Vanilla Sky. I agree with the substance, but there are certainly some moments that are better than others. For example, a lot of the potential "turn it all around" moments come when I have time to contemplate my life in a darker light, such as when I'm home sick from work. The brain isn't really functioning, but it can usually come up with something that's wrong, as well as a very encouraging and urgent-seeming plan. The problem is that a lot of those moments are really not a time when I want to get up out of bed and start lifting weights or learning Spanish. They're just times I notice a void. Fatigue before retiring yields a good number of. . .opportunities for turning it all around.

This all reminds me of the quote I heard attributed to Dave Cutler, one of the originals on the Windows NT project. "When all is said and done, more is said than done." How often that's proved true in my life. This is why most of the time I try not to make grand plans known to all, because so many of these plans just dissipate. What plans stick I hopefully didn't over-hype, and so people see the successes and not the failures. They would have forgotten about the failures anyway, but why not help out by not even telling anyone you're trying?